Word: harmlessness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...steeped in spirits of wine, he is very well known; acting within the domain of his instincts, he is hardly known at all." That, in parvo, was Fabre's technique- "personal interviews" with his minute subjects. The Languedoeian scorpion (not the common black scorpion of Europe, which is harmless) is a grotesque, straw-colored beast, 3½ inches long, with bony armor and a hard, sharp, poison-tipped tail. Only a Fabre could be intimate with him. He digs his own home in the sand under rocks. He feels his way with his pincers, because, despite his eight staring...
Perhaps Mr. Stokes is a deep-dyed villain. At any rate it has not been settled in court of law. But this paper, the Daily News (Manhattan) pillories him before the public eye, championing the cause of Mrs. Stokes. It made even Mr. Stokes' comparatively innocent appearance? a harmless if not a handsome face? the subject of an almost libelous cartoon. And verbally it piled on mud to the dimensions of a plaster cast...
...simpler nitrates and carbonates - forms which plants can utilize again. Without the participation of microbes in this cycle, life upon this planet would inevitably cease. Without them, civilized communities would long ago have been overwhelmed in their own waste products. Spread upon the surface of the earth, these become harmless through microbic activity. These upper layers of the soil are the ancestral home of the bacteria, where they are concentrated most thickly. Germs which break down organic matter in the soil are frequently attached to the roots of legumes (beans, peas, clover), and act as " nitrogen-fixers" for the vegetable...
...cases of impropriety, indecency, immorality. I then wrote a letter to the papers complaining of widespread immorality and at once became the center of a storm of indignant protest. The papers?particularly the Daily Express?inveighed against me for sending ' paid spies' to interfere with ' innocent courtships' and ' harmless wooings.' The papers called attention to the fact that I myself am a celibate...
...growing plants within its reach. The beetles have infested more than 700 square miles, and are increasing in geometrical progression. The damage to crops is immense. The Department of Agriculture is organizing control measures of two kinds: rigid quarantine by inspection of crop shipments; importation of five varieties of harmless insects which are the beetle's enemies. This marshaling of one species against another by human direction will be perhaps the main tactical principle in the coming war between insects...