Word: harmlessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sympathizers in the new House. But of the successful candidates whom he endorsed, only a fraction returned the compliment in a pre-election poll by United Press in which 240 Congressmen-to-be declared themselves stanchly opposed to the oldster's Plan. With Dr. Townsend thus proved politically harmless, U. S. Attorney Leslie C. Garnett announced in Washington last week that the onetime messiah would be prosecuted forthwith on the contempt citation voted against him last spring when he walked out on a House investigating committee (TIME, June...
...stabilization agreement Finance Minister Vincent Auriol had verbally obtained from U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. and British Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain (TIME, Oct. 5). It was scarcely worth the breath in which it w.as spoken, M. Reynaud indicated, but it was also harmless since neither Washington nor London for the moment is financially at odds with Paris...
...weeks, that a Phi Beta Kappa winner is either a major trickster or a greasy grind, and no compromise about it; that a prof under forty-five is a fellow who couldn't make a business success in the boom era, while a prof over forty-five is a harmless oracle . . .", et cetera. But to these axioms if Mr. Hale will add that supremely ubiquitous one about ". . . it's the friendships you make," he will have described a constant just as true at Princeton of Terwillinger...
...When a customer sued an Irish distiller for damages to his health from drinking whiskey which, he claimed, contained one quarter of 1% fusel oil, the distiller's analyst for three weeks disdainfully drank whiskey to which he added 2% of fusel oil to prove that it was harmless...
...harmless when taken internally...