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...Prime Minister waiting for an appointment and referred to the acoustical improvements in Brisbane's finest concert hall as a "rabbit hutch." The ensuing fan mail, he admitted, "was so various in invective that it might have been written by Elizabethan poets. . . . I am a peaceful and harmless man. . . . I simply can't understand why people are always going for me. It's positively a pathological attitude. People see Beecham and at once their backs...
This bill, submitted to the Senate by their Foreign Affairs Committee, authorizes the transfer of lands in Panama to the Panamanian Government and would carry out other provisions accepted by the State Department. Outwardly, it is quite harmless. But isolationists recognized in it the offings of a precedent. Shrewdly they saw the first of what might become a series of legislative acts fostering post-war economic collaboration. Shrewdly, too, they saw that their position stands in danger if these agreements are presented to Congress as legislative acts, requiring only majority vote. Their power of hamstringing progressive policy would be much...
...rays about once a minute, whether indoors or out. Each shower covers two or three acres and contains from 100,000 to 1,000,000 high-speed electrical particles. Even airraid shelters, are no protection-the rays penetrate steel and concrete. But no protection is necessary. The rays are harmless...
Propylene glycol is harmless to man when swallowed or injected into the veins. It is also harmless to mice who have breathed it for long periods. But medical science is cautious-there was still a remote chance that glycol might accumulate harmfully in the erect human lungs which, unlike those of mice, do not drain themselves. So last June Dr. Robertson began studying the effect of glycol vapor on monkeys imported from the University of Puerto Rico's School of Tropical Medicine. So far, after many months' exposure to the vapor, the monkeys are happy and fatter than...
...white hunters oiled their guns. In the Zulu villages the old men rolled their eyes as they chattered of the slaughter to come-whole herds of galloping zebras and wildebeests to be stalked and shot to stop nagana-native name for a form of African sleeping sickness. Harmless to game animals, nagana is deadly to domestic cattle, with a mortality rate of close to 50%. It is carried by a tsetse fly (Glossina morsitans) closely related to the tsetse (G. palpalis) which infects...