Word: harmless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Brookhaven meteorologists started shooting harmless oil smoke from a 420-ft. tower on the laboratory grounds. Meteorologists were assigned to trace the smoke and note just where it went and how quickly it dissipated...
...first contestant, failing to explain what "atom" meant in the original Greek, was penalized with a harmless jolt from...
...streets carrying thermos jugs, passing out coffee free to all. In Bogota's Cafe El Dorado, a grey-maned lawyer declaimed: "They're trying to tax a tradition-aye, exploit friendship itself!" In La Botella de Oro, a young sculptor shouted: "The birthright of all Bogotanos-a harmless vice, our oldest tradition. Double the price? No hay derecho! (They have no right...
...Island with You (MGM) is a harmless little hot-weather cooler, filmed in a watery Technicolor haze. Sarongs are worn by the girls (Esther Williams, Cyd Charisse) and summer whites by the men (Peter Lawford, Jimmy Durante). The story, all about the warmed-over infatuation of a Navy pilot for a movie star he met on a U.S.O. tour, was also meant to be air-conditioned, but it gets a bit humid. Swimmer Williams should not have been asked to impersonate a film actress, but in her aqua-ballets and posturings in a bathing suit, she is a fine sight...
...Hollywood, M-G-M Director Chester M. Franklin worried about the increasing number of deaths from sleeping tablets. He got an idea, talked it over with Pharmacist Herschel R. Hoskins. Why not put something in the tablets to make them harmless? The result, which Franklin hopes to patent: a sleeping tablet with a built-in dose of that old emetic, ipecac. Taking up to three tablets would cause sleep; more than three, vomiting...