Word: harmlessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Come? The doctors went to work meanwhile to figure out what was the matter with the vaccine. So far they have little to report. The vaccine, provided by the Rockefeller Foundation since 1936, consists of yellow-fever virus rendered harmless in the laboratory. The ½cc ampules must be kept in frozen storage, must not rise above 37° F. before use. There are three possible causes for the trouble: 1) the Army slipped up on vaccine handling; 2) the toned-down virus sometimes made people sick; 3) this particular batch had been contaminated by another germ...
Paul Osborn's "The Vinegar Tree," which they will perform through August 8, is a ten-year-old comedy of manners that, for harmless social nonsense, retains a surprising freshness. Except for a brief third-act lapse into didacticism, its clever risque dialogue will not lack punch for a generation schooled on the sharpness of Kaufman and Hart...
...Britain took at least as much courage as fighter-piloting. During the blitzes, and after the Nazis' smaller raids, land-mine squads had to rush to spots where the huge parachute-bombs had fallen, rope off the area, then try to dismantle the mines and make them harmless before they exploded...
...people ever saw in Axel Wenner-Gren what he claims to see in himself. One of the kinder things people have said was that he was an able but harmless fellow afflicted by delusions of grandeur. Others, with more calumny, have said that he was the Axis super-agent for the Western Hemisphere, told off to: 1) soften up Latin America for the Axis; 2) harden it up against North America...
...live in happy poverty on ramshackle Tortilla Flat. Pilon and his band of rascally idlers would rather filch their beloved food and wine and sleep out under the giant redwood trees than earn their keep by chopping squids in the town below. They are probably the most harmless, insignificant people alive, but Steinbeck's story of religious faith and the good works it inspired lifts them out of their humble uselessness, preaching the essential dignity of all mankind...