Word: harmlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Calmette has no doubt that his vaccine is harmless. It is prepared from living bovine tuberculosis germs. The germs are cultured for many germ generations in glycerinated ox-gall until they become non-virulent. If fed to infants in three doses during the first ten days of life, the vaccine is supposed to immunize them against tuberculosis. Dr. William Hallock Park, director of the New York civic health laboratories, has certified Dr. Calmette's claims. Last week he said: "We have not had a single accident in the use of the vaccine." Nearly 400,000 French babies...
...born to trouble, but he somehow never gets used to it. Mendel Singer, Russian Jew, teacher of the Scriptures in the village of Zuchnow, was a harmless kind of fellow, poor like the rest of his neighbors, but with a good wife, two sons and a daughter. Everything went as well as could be expected for Mendel until his last child, Menuchim, was born?a cripple, practically an idiot. When his mother carried the child to the wonder-working Rabbi he said: "Pain will make him wise, ugliness good, bitterness mild, and sickness strong!" But Menuchim went on being...
...great was his prestige that when, in 1917 he became head of an advisory board of civilian inventors to meet conditions of warfare on land and sea, it was confidently expected that he would find a way rendering enemy submarines harmless. Inventor Edison was still pondering ways to combat submarines when the war ended...
Statements to be marked true or false: Light wines and beer are harmless. The teaching of the Bible is against the drinking of liquor in any form. All moderate drinkers tend to become heavy drinkers...
...finds a bit of painted pottery or a woven basket he is as happy as if he had found a chunk of turquoise in a matrix of silver. He docs not go nosing into an Indian's private affairs. If he happens to see a flask of harmless whiskey, he may tell the fellow to throw it away. But he will not have him arrested. One can trust...