Word: harmless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...settle down for a long slege of bewilderment. And then, after the hero and the heroine have been chasing about the hospital for an hour or so, to no observable purpose, they calmly explain the whole thing to the inspector. A very harmless-looking interne for whom we had formed quite a liking, turns out to be the dastard, proving conclusively that you just can't trust anybody...
...most of them lived in an apartment house called by that magnificent name. A young married set in the lower brackets of the middle class, whose husbands worked hard at minor jobs that kept their wives supplied with candy, cinemas and cheap cars, they lived in loud but comparatively harmless amity. The more frolicsome hailed each other, farewelled and responded with such remarks as "Bum joor, sports!", "Olive oil!", "Yeppy...
Most intelligent laymen regard the jargon of lawyers as an obvious trade trick, a professional pig-Latin calculated to obscure otherwise simple matters and impress clients with the indispensability of their services. Fortunately, most of their pompous verbal mumbo-jumbo is harmless tautology. But at least one legal usage- "and/or"-is dangerous nonsense...
...sorry business to rob the world in this way of its legends. And the Vagabond wonders what is gained when somebody opens an ancient tomb or explores a forbidden sanctuary or wrecks a harmless illusion only to say: "Nothing is there...
...Curie-Joliots' first results in artificial radioactivity have been duplicated and extended in a half-dozen countries, especially by California's Lawrence and Italy's Fermi. Dr. Lawrence obtained 5,000,000-volt gamma rays from salt, evoked the possibility of injecting harmless but radioactivated salt compounds into the human body as a cancer remedy. Dr. Fermi has coaxed radiations of beta particles (fast electrons) from phosphorus, iron, silicon, aluminum, chlorine, vanadium. copper, arsenic, silver, tellurium, iodine, a dozen others...