Word: harmlessly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lord Askwith of St. Ives (1st Baron), tin magnate in the Straits Settlements mines, blew a double-stopped yet harmless blast of exaggeration at the Royal Colonial Institute held in London last week...
...nervous class of people and would be termed neurasthenics. In one village for example, where a stick was whacked against the side of a tent, the inhabitants fainted from fright. A number of the subjects who were being measured lost consciousness while they were undergoing this simple and harmless operation...
...Governor-General Birabeau. But this is only an assumed role; among the Riffs, Pierre is really none other than "The Red Shadow", a renegade white man who leads the natives on nocturnal forays. His dual activities are not suspected and they give him a lot of good harmless fun until love arrives in the attractive form of Miss Ethel Louise Wright as Margot Bonvalet, a visiting Parisienne...
Immunity. Dr. Malcolm Herman Soule of the University of Michigan presented a theory that disease germs occur in two forms-one virulent, the other relatively harmless. The presence of the virulent types in the blood incites some agent (its nature yet unknown) to dissociate the virulence, leaving the germs in their mild form. This gentle type the body cells & fluids can easily destroy. It is the presence of that dissociating power, Dr. Soule believes, that renders people immune to disease, rather than any specific germicidal activity of the body fluids...
...GOOD M. POIRET IS touring the LAND commenting ON American dress both MALE and female AND although he is QUALIFIED to judge OF THESE things and PASS cutting remarks AND WE are not YET we too are going to INDULGE in a little HARMLESS FIREWORKS...