Word: harmless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...purposes and methods become incidental chicanery compared to the organized crime perpetrated by the retail drug concerns and their gag rule over the American press. When young girls are going blind from the effects of eyelash brightener, when the American Medical Association traces dozens of deaths to a supposedly harmless remedy for rheumatism, when drug cures for gallstones are sold at every pharmacy, and it is known that the infirmity can only be cured by operation, it appears time to divert these Borgias to a new table...
Like the finale of a great symphony, the troubles of independent Austria swung higher & higher, louder & louder last week. Adolf Hitler's first anniversary in power, the day for which all Austria waited and worried, came and went with only the popping of a few harmless paper bombs in Vienna's Stephansplatz. In his anniversary speech before the Reichstag, Chancellor Hitler dismissed the Austrian crisis thus...
...harmless, empty, uncomplaining pews...
...attitude of the whole anti-Pingle faction was one of defensive parody: "If Indians approached us, we referred to them as the Oncoming Savages. We never said, 'Was that a shot?' but always 'Was that the well-known bark of a Mauser?' All insects of harmless nature and ridiculous appearance we pointed out to each other
...Kramer anti-poliomyelitis vaccine is a mixture of immune serum (from a person who has had an attack of the disease) and active infantile paralysis virus. The serum renders the virus harmless, and the product creates immunity in vaccinated monkeys. It is useless in treating an attack of poliomyelitis or curing the consequent paralysis, but seems likely to prove an authentic preventive...