Word: mild
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...spite of horned-spectacles and mild manners, these professors' suggestions have been worthy of serious consideration. Their war plans have in mind something more than the mere running of the war. It was they who, under the title of intellectuals, hoped that war might come, in order that many of the injustices which they believe have existed in the past might be corrected. Their lives had been spent in dealing with principles and theories and abstractions. But now they have come into power at a time when many things are being changed and theories may actually be put into practice...
...attitude of the undergraduate will have to change from a mild prodigal son type to that of a careful planner. Otherwise he will miss much of the pleasure which his monthly dividends from home are able to give him. In its performances he may look upon this as a most disagreeable task. A great many fathers, however, are going to rejoice secretly that a government measure can do good in some respect, even though they first viewed it as confiscation...
...great difficulty in trying to control the spread of German measles is due to the fact that these early symptoms are often so mild that the doctor is not consulted until the appearance of the rash, and meantime the individual has pursued without restraint his daily interests--which, may have included the theatre or a dance--spreading the contagion everywhere he goes...
...source of mild surprise to some of us that the CRIMSON has so naively put its head into the noose that the Army League is known to have strung for it. Upon a telegraphic summons from the latter organization, which is lobbying indefatigably for compulsory military service, the CRIMSON obligingly announces a policy of actively favoring military training, calls for a straw-vote without any previous discussion of the question, and arranges to send an official delegation to Washington on Thursday to lay the convincing results before the Senate Military Affairs Committee, in order to counteract the staggering effect...
...four years after commencement. For instance, last night at the Hasty Pudding Club, where the Harvard Dramatic Society gave its fall production, there were all the same sights usual just a year or two ago. There was the eagle-eyed mama, chaperoning her daughter; the wild company of the mild, harmless, and altogether blameless Harvard boy who sat on the other side of mamma and imagined he was seeing life...