Word: harmlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...guided mainly by Dr. Strandberg's theories and those of Professor N. Bloembergen of Harvard, has tested successfully a deep-frozen device that acts as an oscillator and promises to grow into a Versitron-like amplifier. Magnetic Explosion. The magnetic fields that exist around horseshoe magnets are gentle, harmless things, but when a magnetic field gets really intense, it acts like a high explosive. Physicists H. P. Furth of the University of California, M. A. Levine of the Air Force Cambridge Research Center, and R. W. Waniek of Harvard showed a ring of hard beryllium copper that had been...
Peerless at Princeton. Listerine was the creation of Lambert's father, a chemist who developed the antiseptic formula (useful in that it was bland and harmless to skin and other tissue). Father Lambert scraped together sufficient funds to get to London and there "invested his last dollar in an elegant carriage with a liveried coachman." Helped by this haughty equipage, he coaxed from Lord Lister, the pioneer of antiseptic surgery, the right to christen the new formula with the great man's name...
...exactly what they see and what they think are submitting reports which in many cases are written to please, or at least not to irritate, powerful groups in Washington. The smarter Foreign Service officers are able to get their point and their observations across under a camouflage of outwardly harmless verbiage. The less acute reporters either say what they know the "right people" want to hear, or say the wrong, though perhaps honest thing and sometimes lose their post, their promotion, or their job. When a report is written with the idea that it will be read ten years from...
...secret: he is a "Divinely Separated person" who has found a "Unifying Purpose" that will give the human race a healthy substitute for war. "That Unifying Purpose," he says, "has got to have a ritual, a symbolism, an exercise, some world-wide activity that is simple and joyful and harmless. And in a lifetime of searching, I have yet to find an activity that surpasses roller-skating...
...Dulles, and to many Americans, this attitude seems harmless, and moreover, laudable. After all, they think, waging peace is seventy times seven better than waging war. But Dulles, and whatever company he has, fails to realize how aggressive this is. They cannot see that even "virtuous" aggressiveness is offensive to the Indians, the Middle East, and the satellites. To the neutral country, it is not a question of strength and virtue. Both America and Russia are strong, and both say they are virtuous. The real question to them is of motive--does America want the world to be American...