Word: harmlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...permanent, any more than it is with humans. After a while the memory oscillations die away; the sound of the whistle becomes ineffective again, its learned meaning forgotten. But while the memory lingers, the mechanical turtle is not a simple, well-adjusted beast. It flees from a harmless whistle, or rushes forward eagerly for food that is not there. And this is not the worst. Dr. Walter has figured out a brain with built-in makings of madness. So fitted, his creatures have two "learning circuits" instead of one; they can be trained to react in two different ways...
...adoption of a code of ethics, while harmless, will do but little good. Any man who must look up his code of ethics to find out what is proper or improper for him to do is too innocent to be around Washington." As a matter of fact, Sawyer concluded heavily, if Senators really want to study reprehensible practices in Government, they might start in with congressional committees and their questions, which keep Government officials up late of nights, getting the answers together...
...harmless-looking sort-he had the severe mouth, high forehead and martyred gaze of a divinity student; he was nearsighted, and wore rimless spectacles. No cop bothered him as he wandered toward the Washington Monument in the national capital one evening last week, with a .38 revolver and a roll of adhesive tape in his pocket. Though it was still light, he ducked, unnoticed, into the front seat of a parked sedan...
...peyote traffic, but Mexico has a plentiful supply. In Washington the Bureau of Indian Affairs is waiting for the results of two elaborate studies into the physical and social effects of peyote. Until proof to the contrary is received, the bureau is committed to the view that peyote is harmless. The men on the spot in the desert think they know better...
Generations of American, mothers have kept boric-acid powder in the medicine chest, believing it to be a harmless remedy for assorted ills such as eye inflammation, diaper rash or prickly heat. Last week Dr. Russell S. Fisher, Maryland's chief medical examiner, told the College cf American Pathologists that boric acid can kill...