Word: mild
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mild to increase Britain's military might sensationally, too strong to be interpreted only as a gesture on the eve of Hitler's Reichstag speech, conscription was primarily important in signalizing another break in Britain's traditions, another change in the status of British labor, another change in the status of British arms. For 70 years British practice has been to maintain a complementary unit in England for every Army unit required overseas. In theory each regiment has a battalion at home and one abroad, the home battalion training men to replace soldiers whose active service...
...even the peace-loving Socialists raised any great fuss. And from France, a onetime Premier, Socialist Léon Blum, even spoke sharply against Labor's opposition to such mild conscription. Said he of British Labor's distaste for conscription: "I am myself staggered and I think that French opinion generally is staggered...
...advertisements the Cambridge daily formally declared war on the system in general. . . . Not content with discreet announcements, high pressure advertising is brought into use (but the tutoring schools) inferring that he who studies is a sucker and which includes a cocktail party for freshmen. . . . Having as an example the mild form of the system as it exists here and at New Haven the editorial board feels that these conditions could and should be eliminated. But it might be pointed out that as long as the only weapons used are the refusal of advertisements and publicizing the evil there...
Messiah. Fundamental Hitler nature is Austrian-mild, appreciative of beauty and art, sentimental, loving display. But long ago his chief underlings went vigorously to work to build a higher and higher pedestal under him. His contacts with common life around him have become more and more remote so that he has come to accept himself as a Messiah. So surrounded is he by adoring millions that his occasional megalomaniac outbursts have become more frequent. He is more autocratic and noncommittal than ever even to his old party leaders. He will tolerate disagreement only on the tiniest of details. His deep...
...deceived by the mild weather. You shouldn't plant your sweet corn until the leaf of the oak tree is as big as a mouse's ear. Enough corn for an average family can be planted by digging up a section of Fifth Avenue about fifty feet long and seven feet wide and planting two rows of hills about three feet apart...