Word: harmlessness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...minority is too weak to defend you, even on the basis of a harmless, but necessary, educational exhibit. It can not now defend itself. The times, and possibly the world and sun also, are out of joint...
...disposition, he is inclined to be dyspeptic. But, overcoming physical difficulties, he has a way of applying himself to the business in hand and bringing forth a thoroughly sound and common sense conclusion. The late Senator Ollie James of Kentucky once compared him to a snapping turtle. "He looks harmless, but just prod him once and see how quick he'll bite...
...that there are but five types of rays dangerous to life: X-rays, radium rays, ultraviolet rays, ordinary heat rays, and high-frequency or radio electrical fields, in the order of length. Between the ultraviolet and the heat rays is the visible spectrum of light rays. X-rays are harmless beyond a few hundred feet at most. There is not enough radium in the world to secure large-scale results. Ultraviolet rays have the peculiar property of making the air through which they pass a conductor for electrical currents. They can be directed, and it is possible that a method...
That indefinite day in early June when students of high and preparatory schools are released with diplomas would be no more critical in national affairs than the first of January or the Fourth of July were it not for the Commencement address. Once a harmless diversion which elders could not deny themselves, the address has become a dangerous habit more threatening than the Fourth of July oration...
...truths as clearly as the one that the liberals and radicals of today are the conservatives to tomorrow there is little likelihood that the All-American Conference will either stamp out the radicalism of the present or live a long life. But even though its futility makes it harmless, there are strong reasons for branding the association with public disapproval. To organize the clubs and unions of twenty million people into a machine whose avowed purpose is the suppression of all ideas which conflict with the status quo is but another means of accomplishing the aims of medieval monarchs...