Word: harmlessly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very chilly to this last proposition. They have disliked the idea of so much U. S. machinery being set up within their borders. The experiment is to be tried first on the Irish (who do not object) in order to remove the prejudice of other countries by showing how harmless the system...
Perhaps the authorities fear that the sentimental reaction that most hunger strikes engender among hoi polloi will harm their party were they to let Miss MacSwiney carry out her harmless threat. Unquestionably the public watches with awe and apprehension the lengthening days of the hunger strike, lending the victims a gradually increasing support of maudlin sympathy. Since the days of Pre-war Suffragettes in England, the hunger strike has become the last resort of persons who could not attain their ends by any other method...
...dress, you accept the ton for the sake of the grain. For the world is a big place, and there is room for everybody, and each man has the inalienable right to be as eccentric as he pleases. It is my own conviction that the Why-nots are quite harmless. But think of the wasted energy...
...brigade, but failed to live up to the remaining three-quarters of its appellation. The figures of the chorus were much less dowager-like than those of the usual Boston editions of New York shows; but the faces lived up to the customary standard. The music was hitless and harmless. Harry Le Vant is to be congratulated highly on the success with which he sat on the orchestra: it was actually possible to hear the singers' voices distinctly in all the songs--not that that made the result any more pleasing, but it at least showed that Mr. Le Vant...
...called it the Bacillus Bulgaricus, because it frequented the sour milk of Bulgaria. Recently Prof. Leo F. Rettger of Yale announced that he had experimented with an allied form of the Bacillus Acidophilus and demonstrated that, induced to breed in great quantities, it expells all harmful bacteria by its harmless self. Thus, puckering their mouths to imbibe the acidated lacteal fluid of bovines, young people, old people, sexa-and even octogenarians may continue to "ripe and ripe." Prof. Rettger also hinted that with these bacilli would be developed a typhoid cure...