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...sale of Ethyl Gasoline, and in some other places sale was voluntarily stopped until it could be publicly demonstrated that Ethyl Gasoline is itself harmless...
Taken by themselves, vegetables are harmless enough, except when they are heaved by irate partisans at political meetings. The deadly orange speeding on its fell course in a theater would never have been thrown if the hand and brain that impelled it had not been maddened by a diet of turnips and cabbage...
...Carver taught rural economics at Cornell for six months. He spent a few days at the Farmingdale Agricultural School. The rest of the time he remained at Duxbury. At Farmingdale the members of the summer institute visited by means of fifty automobiles the Long Island farms. Though "they were harmless agriculturists" people believed their procession to be a demonstration of the Ku Klux Klan. Professor Carver believes most of the excitement over the Ku Klux Klan has just as innocent origin as this...
...nothing but a rather pitiable semi-human wail. He cannot be made to fight unless cornered. Mr. Akeley, on one of his expeditions took two women and a child up into the gorilla country without danger. And big game hunters have been invading this country and killing the harmless creatures by the score, until now there are probably less than 2,000 in existence...
...Next day a kind crank wrote to the Acting British Consul in Manhattan offering to murder the distinguished British Heir Apparent. Although it was practically certain that the man was harmless, New York State Troopers, U. S. Department of State Agents and Scotland Yard Detectives "took extra precautions...