Word: harmlessness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...English] are ... a degenerate race suffering from disturbed nerve centres? We have come to realize that tea-drinking is definitely refreshing, exhilarating and harmless. . . . Alcohol is the most expensive drink in America today and tea the cheapest. .' . . The stimulating effects . . . will go a long way toward staying the taste for alcohol...
...foreign policy of the Empire must now do so in concert with the Dominions, and not with her onetime parental status as "The Mother Country." Clearly these formulae are intentionally so loose and general as to leave enough space in Mother England's cupboard for much harmless rattling of the skeleton called "Treason to the King...
Senator Gillett wrote to the New York Times: "The words and insinuation you ascribe to me I neither uttered nor conceived . . . You have been imposed upon ... by a gross perversion and distortion of a harmless remark...
...City Without Jews.f At first, the board of censors in Manhattan said: "No." Then, a few days later, they said: "Let it run." It really did not make any difference, for the film is harmless, the public refused to become excited, there were no race riots. The story is laid in the year 1976 in the city of Vientra, where a law is passed ousting all the Jews. Troubles beset Vientra. Then the Jews are called back...
...entirely cured, after having been contracted, by proper medical measures at birth. Many states, realizing this, have legally outlawed ophthalmia neonatorum, making prophylactic treatment of the eyes of newborns compulsory, supplying prophylactic outfits through health departments. The treatment, consisting of drops of silver nitrate in proper dilution, is harmless to the normal eye; constitutes therefore a universal safety measure...