Word: harmless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Killer. A floor wax that kills bugs and crawling insects but is harmless to humans was announced nationally by the Freewax Corp. of Tallahassee, Fla. Price per quart...
Across the Reef. Dr. Halstead has learned to take nothing for granted. Once he was testing two puffers, identical except that one came from Hawaii and the other from the Phoenix Islands. The Hawaiian fish was harmless. It seemed pointless to test the other, but he did so anyway: the mouse died in convulsions in 4½ minutes. In this case the fish came from waters 2,000 miles apart, but Halstead has found that fish taken on one side of a reef may be safe, while those on the other side, a mile away, are deadly...
...scholar. He went to an eastern prep school (Choate) and then to Princeton, where he graduated in 1922. At Princeton he was known as something of a politician and was a moderate success: managing editor of the Daily Princetonian. A Princeton roommate recalls Stevenson as "a nice, harmless, pleasant guy" whose personality got him the nickname "Rabbit...
...turned out that this was youth and inexperience, as harmless as chickenpox; in his convalescent state he realized that stablemen didn't need company as much as they needed better living accommodations. During the three years he was president of Belmont Park, he fought the favoritism the big stables got, and put in shower rooms and sleeping facilities in the public stables. He still listens to advice, even from newspapermen, but it just goes into the general fund...
...Yorkers alarmed by reports over the weekend that a plague of alien snails had descended upon the Central Park lake, were reassured yesterday by William J. Clench, curator of mollusks, who identified the species as harmless and 100 percent American...