Word: harmless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eventually be broken up by Earth's gravitation. One of Jupiter's little satellites, for example, is so close to that big planet's gravitational "danger zone" that it is egg-shaped. Sir James made it clear last week that the lunar approach will be no harmless display for earthlings...
...bitter quarrel with his spouse and is so far diverted from his routine that he goes not to the office but forthwith to a very low pub where he falls in with a group of down-at-the-heels race track touts. It has been Erwin's harmless amusement as he daily rides the Ozone Park bus to dope out the day's horse races and figure up his paper profits. He shows the boys his predictions for the races and, desperately they lay their last "fin" as he indicates. His horse comes through and so do all his other...
...title comes from a line of Rupert Brooke, but is otherwise harmless--there's nothing Brookeian about the play. In smart and sophisticated fashion it tells the story of a great pianist who is as skilled with the ladies as with the ivories. His wife doesn't particularly mind his penchant for tarts but when he finds a cultured and knowing tart she gets worried and decides on strategy...
...undersigned, believe that the Teacher's Oath Bill is contrary to the spirit in which the Constitutions of Massachusetts and of the United States have been conceived. We believe that in spite of the harmless nature of its phraseology, it constitutes an abridgement of the fundamental rights of freedom of speech, conscience, and education. We therefore strongly urge that the Teacher's Oath Bill be repealed...
Turning to Dr. Brodie. Dr, Rivers said that Brodie vaccine apparently was harmless, that he doubted its efficacy, and under no circumstances would testify for it before 100.000 children had been inoculated and undeniably protected from infantile paralysis...