Word: harmlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Desperate hospital officials called in Dr. Albert E. Heustis, Michigan's Health Commissioner. Dr. Heustis and his staff sent to Scotland and Denmark for samples of a peculiarly virulent strain, previously reported only from Europe and catalogued by Danish experts as O-111, of the normally harmless coliform bacteria. An identical form was found in the bowels of 90% of Port Huron's infected babies...
...modern turn to painting has set some 300,000 U.S. citizens to learning the pure and harmless pleasures of the brush and easel. Last week 228 of them were discovering the prouder joys of exhibition. The winners of a nationwide contest sponsored by Art News magazine, they had had their works hung in Manhattan's Riverside Museum for all the world to gawk and snicker...
...years, Conan Doyle wrote exclusively for the Strand, in a literary company that has seldom been equaled by any periodical. Shrewd, mustached Herbert Greenough Smith, the Strand's editor for four decades, gave his readers the best in Britain to provide "wholesome and harmless entertainment to hard-working people...