Word: harmless
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...furnish the motive for all efforts to bring it to an end. But emotion cannot supply the principles of action which guide men in living. Emotion cannot replace the inexorable logic which governs a situation; it cannot remove present necessities; it cannot disarm Europe and render her gentle and harmless...
...editorials in the number are quite harmless; the reviews are competent...
...sport were as harmless as it is childish, only personal preference would have to be consulted. But serious damage, not only to apparel, but more important, to valuable portraits has been done through mere thoughtlessness. Such ill-judged zeal should not be tolerated, even under the guise of college spirit...
Professor Albert Bushnell Hart contributes an analysis of the race influences in the European War; there are two amusing pieces of fiction blessed by the absence of affectation; one short essay entitled "Fussing" treats lightly of a present day, collegiate--and perpetual and world wide--harmless hypocrisy...
...address last night on "Pending Legislation regarding Combinations and Corporations," Professor E. Dana Durand declared that with one exception, all the bills relative to the trust question now before Congress have a common weakness in their failure to distinguish between harmless and monopolistic combination. These bills would rule out the element of reason in the judicial interpretation of trust cases, thus making no discrimination between the petty and harmless restraint of trade allowable by late decisions of the Supreme Court, and the large and detrimental monopolies by the more powerful corporations. Such acts would do little toward bettering the situation...