Word: harmlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Magistrate Harris was given one of the colored placards?about the size of the pasteboards found in clean shirts?to inspect. He read something harmless about "Help Bring Back Prosperity" and "Don't Let The Money Pile Up." Then he peered at the illustration, one half of which showed an obviously God-fearing white citizen, neatly dressed and ironing something. Then he looked at the other side...
...abortion problem. ¶The $400 Federal income tax exemption for each child should be increased. The Government might thus help alleviate the burdens of parenthood, would remove an inducement to abortion. ¶ Women should be told that interference with pregnancy, even in its earliest stages, is not the harmless procedure they seem to consider it to be, but is a procedure inevitably associated with considerable risk to life and especially to future health...
...York zoo and famed snake fancier and expert. Last week they got it. The Fish & Game Association was wrong, said Snakeman Ditmars. There was no copperhead menace in Westchester County yet. But a bounty might be a menace. Dead copperheads would be brought into the county, many a harmless milk snake would be mistaken for a copperhead. Worse, small boys would go snake hunting. Some would kill their snakes. Others the snakes would kill...
...Last week after innumerable experiments whither he was beguiled from Egyptian researches, he was prepared to restate his original, but widely questioned belief that a phage was not a chemical but a living organism. A disease germ attacked by a phage goes mad. Its heredity changes; it usually becomes harmless. Unfortunately, some phaged germs develop into something even more virulent...
French reaction to the Hitler blast last week was to take extremely seriously the Fascist Leader's boast that he will be German Chancellor before long. "There is only one harmless," way of grimly rendering observed the Paris' semi Hitlerites official Journal des Débats, "and that is to face them with force. . . . We are going to have to do with a Germany more dis quieting for Europe than the Germany...