Word: harmless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Medical authorities assert that to a fatigued, nervous, jumpy system a warm shower before retiring has a relaxing, beneficial effect. More particularly, Dr. Means, medical adviser to the University, has observed many such jumpy personalities about Harvard. Moreover, a warm shower at night is a harmless and often welcome form of relaxation even to the not-so-jumpy members of society...
...puffing invisibly from motor vehicle exhausts.- Carbon monoxide's first effects are like those of alcohol. Heavy concentrations of the gas, as in closed garages, kill quickly, painlessly. Carbon monoxide (CO) is the result of incomplete combustion. Complete fuel burning would give carbon dioxide (C02), a gas ordinarily harmless to animals.† But no motor is 100% efficient with its gasoline. Some CO always escapes, dangerously. For him who invents a way of making such CO harmless awaits a fortune from motor car users...
...true, as Dr. Briggs points out, that schools of this type constitute a very small number of all the private schools of the country. Yet even though the schools which contribute little are at best harmless in their effect upon public education, there is reason to doubt that we shall ever want to wipe them out. American democracy seems to have established it as a fundamental principle that the rights of any minority shall be respected so long as the exercise of these rights does not do serious and demonstrable harm to the interests of the majority