Word: harmlessness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Traditionally, divas are prey to harmless superstitions. Lily Pons, born with a caul on a Friday the 13th, counts 13 her lucky number. She asks for room 1313 in hotels, buys souvenirs (like South American birds) by the baker's dozen; her house in Silvermine, Conn. bears the street number 13. So, by her and Kosty's account, she held out for 13 proposals of marriage, then straightway accepted. They were married in June...
Like sweat and urine, saliva contains urea, a nitrogen compound. Dr. Stephan found that two groups of antagonistic bacteria flourish in saliva: 1) the destructive lactobacilli; 2) harmless germs of the staphylococcus family. By brewing an enzyme called urease. the staphylococci split up urea in the saliva into an ammonium compound, which neutralizes the erosive acid. Dr. Stephan's conclusion: teeth may decay when the saliva does not contain enough urea, or when the staphylococci are sluggish...
...this is harmless when compared to its effort of last night. Hardly a word was spoken of the dangers of war. What looked like a choice was presented to the people: "Do we as a free people agree that the Axis powers must be defeated?" Calm judgment, and weighing of the real alternatives are thus neatly dispensed with, and yet there is no blatant emotionalism to antagonize anyone. Thus does President Conant present the great question...
...Jungeblut and Sanders are still nowhere near ready to try murine virus on human beings. But they think they have discovered an entirely new approach to polio immunity-fighting one virus with another. It may be, they speculated, that murine virus, which is relatively harmless to monkeys, rapidly settles in their brain and spinal cord, "blockading" the deadly polio virus...
CINCINNATI--A bow-legged ex-third baseman named William Henry Walters, Jr. today turned the American League powder magazine into a harmless heap of ashes as the Cincinnati Reds battled their way to a 5-3 triumph over the Detroit Tigers and evened the World Series at one game each...