Word: harmless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, police thought they might never know. After a week of headlines, Manhattan's newspapers fell all over each other belaboring the police for intrusion on the lives of two kindly, harmless people. Said the Daily News: "We find ourselves wishing the New York policemen would just sweep Langley's place up a little more, and then quietly steal away, maybe leaving a little bowl of milk for him, on his doorstep...
...radioactivity produced by the Bikini bombs," Dr. Teller points out, "was detected within about one week in the United States. It was weak, com pletely harmless. . . . But there is a threshold beyond which radioactivity has lethal effects. . . . Sufficiently strong radio activity will kill all living tissue...
Eisler appeared in Moscow to attend a Comintern school, in Spain as commissar of German Loyalist troops. In 1939, during the days of the Russo-German pact, he was in France. He was thrown into a concentration camp, kept there until 1941. Released, he assumed the role of a harmless refugee, headed for the U.S. again...
...great majority of human ailments tend towards spontaneous recovery." A doctor must know when to apply "skillful neglect"; i.e., just tell the patient he is going to get well without treatment, or give him a harmless pill...
Five years ago, selecting titles at the last minute could be passed off as a harmless eccentricity. At the most, it would merely delay books for the length of time it took mail from Cambridge to reach the publisher. This happy situation no longer holds true. Dilatory professors may not only hold up the student unduly, since stocks are not complete, but may keep him from getting the text at all. There is no need for this reluctance in picking out texts now, nor has there ever been an entirely adequate one. Some courses have had their February lists...