Word: harmless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this percentage is a little drastic to apply to Harvard. Red Books, managerships, Student Councils run on and on, and though they lack the fine flavor of campus prestige that once surrounded them, they have a harmless, and often a pleasant place, in the slowly disintegrating entity of Harvard life...
...along the almost continuous stretch of the Alps, Caucasus and Himalaya mountains; 2) along the whole mountainous circle of the Pacific. Often shaken Italy is in the first zone, California and Japan in the second. Eastern North America, along the Appalachian chain goes through a noticeable, but usually harmless quake at least once a year, and a damaging one at about five year intervals. The probable cause of last week's quake, according to Arthur Keith, chairman of the National Research Council's Committee on Geology and Geography, is counter pressure. When glaciers and icecaps a mile thick...
...there is a terrific shock in the spectacle now being played in Boston. One candidate remarks "The people of Boston have elected some peculiar figures in the past but they have never elected a consummate liar": another wields witty puns on the straight and the Curley; charges break from harmless general statements and turn to reciprocal specific slanders...
...Kellogg Treaty concludes with the seemingly harmless statement that it is signed by the rulers of the various nations "in the name of their respective peoples." Though Japan is a constitutional monarchy, yearly growing more democratic, nowhere are royal prerogatives more jealously guarded. According to the Japanese Constitution the Emperor, Son of Heaven, does not sign treaties "in the name of his people" for that would mean that it was the people who were making the treaty, the Emperor who was their agent. Japanese Prime Ministers sign "in the name of" the people. Japan's Emperor signs "for the good...
...crumbless, for at "Kijkuit" no one may breakfast abed. At 7:30 the Master leaves his bath. On the scales he finds he weighs less than 100 lbs. In the mirror he sees pale, blue eyes, pointed chin, sunken cheeks, large head, hairless skin, stooped shoulders, and his stomach. Harmless looking from the outside, it is this organ which has caused him more woe than anything else in life. A folkstory says this stomach is "lined with silver." The Master dons one of several hundred ties, selects one of 60 suits. He glances at the New York Times...