Word: harmlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play's garbling of eras is harmless, its juggling of levels...
Father McDonnell does not object to giving angels human bodies, or even wings. "But we do object to the portrayal of angels as harmless, effeminate creatures bored with a purposeless existence. We object to their portrayal as ethereal glamor queens looking pleasantly ineffectual. Though there are no masculine or feminine angels . . . (there can be distinction of sexes only where there are bodies), yet it is not correct to portray angels as women. God has revealed the angels to us in the masculine: Raphael, Michael, Gabriel. By their nature the angels are next to God. They are powerful beings. The German...
...wouldn't make sense for the word "hooliganism," as used by the Russians, to derive from Happy Hooligan of a long-ago U.S. comic strip [TIME, Nov. 8]. Happy was a harmless wight who was always being socked, never did any socking. Doesn't the word really come from a family of notorious ruffians, active in London at the end of the last century, named Hoolihan or Hooligan...
...ANGELES AREA ... IS AN IMPORTANT NEWS STORY BUT . . . YOU PUBLISHED A PHOTOGRAPH OF OUR EL SEGUNDO REFINERY OVER THE CAPTION LINE "DENSE SMOKE, POURING FROM STANDARD OIL REFINERY AT EL SEGUNDO . . ." WHICH SURELY IS AN INDICTMENT OF OUR OPERATIONS. [THE "DENSE SMOKE" IS IN REALITY ONLY HARMLESS WATER VAPOR, [PART OF] THE NORMAL OPERATION OF THIS OR ANY MODERN OIL REFINERY ... AS PROOF WE CAN SUPPLY AERIAL PHOTOS TAKEN ON DAYS OF LOW HUMIDITY WHEN THESE VAPORS ARE NOT VISIBLE...
Addition of fluorides to water supplies, in the proportion of one part to a million, has been shown in long-term scientific studies to cut down tooth decay and to be harmless. But in many areas, fluoridation has been opposed as premature or worse yet as "socialized medicine" or "forced medication." Of eleven communities that had the question up for a vote last week, nine voted against fluoridation, notably Atlantic City, N.J. (pop. 61,667), Salem, Ore. (43,140), Greensboro, N.C. (74,389), Birmingham, Ala. (326,037) and Fremont, Neb. (14,762). Approving fluoridation: Mountain Home...