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But that country’s ability to do so was in large part because of social media’s unsalutary influence.

But other familiar, unsalutary smells poked through — doughnuts, the “sour, tangy, birdy smell” of pigeons, a puff of cigar smoke.

This was a measure of unnecessary severity towards non-combatants, and had an unsalutary effect.

In many instances there was reason to believe, that this disease became contagious, as well as epidemic; that is, that one person might receive it from another, as well as by the general unsalutary influence of the atmosphere.

If, however, we permit him to remain with his tubercular mother, to nurse her milk, to live in what necessarily is an unhygienic and unsalutary environment—the presence of the consumptive mother renders it so—the probability is that the tendency to disease, which in his case is the tendency to weak lungs, will materialize, because of his weak resistance, poor nourishment, and unfavorable surroundings.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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