Word: harmless
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...negative to say that eventually temporary courts have been set up. Eventually the Maine boundary, for over 40 years a source of great irritation between England and the United States, was submitted to arbitration, though finally settled by treaty. Such delay enables the jingoes to seize upon disputes, harmless in themselves, and to magnify them until they have created a veritable war scare with all its moral and material consequences. Further the practice of allowing cases even of minor importance, to drag on unsetted only increases the irritation between the two countries and endangers the peaceful settlement of graver disputes...
...fourth number of the Harvard Lampoon comes out today and with it, as the main article, a harmless but very amusing parody of the CRIMSON. It consists of a "sample page," in which are found parodies on the different articles of interest concerning college life. The rest of the number is up to the usual standard. The picture of "University" by A. K. Moe is a good bit of drawing, although very different from his usual style. The farce about the letter box is a clever little sketch. The remainder of the paper is made up of small jokes...
...comparatively small number of men who are thoughtless, or careless of the rights of others,- some of whom may be in the habit of annotating and marking their own books. The difficulty is that, so many evidences of the practice existing, men assume that it is a harmless and common custom. A general disapproval of the practice would do away with...
...itself, the desire to bring about a contest between English and American crews or other teams is natural and harmless. And if it could occasionally be done, say once in four years, there would probably be few objections. Any arrangement for more frequent contests we believe should be out of the question. By creating an abnormal interest, they would be sure to make athletics assume a position in college life, at least in America, entirely out of proportion to their real importance...
...little provocation. These little publications of indecent drivel are cropping up in such numbers that they have become a positive plague. The great danger is that, in time, people may come to take them seriously. So long as they are regarded as comic papers, however, they will be harmless if not amusing...