Word: mild
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yale News reports that according to student opinion both schools are run "on a fairly honest basis." They are in "comparative seclusion," advertising announcements of reviews and comparatively mild blurbs...
Unhappy over his lot because of all these things, Vittorio Emmanuele III has several times been rumored on the point of abdication. Last week correspondents learned that when the mild little King heard of Premier Mussolini's plans to invade Albania, he sent Crown Prince Umberto to call on His Holiness, Pope Pius XII, not once but twice. One interview lasted 45 minutes. Its burden: Rome and Berlin having been politically hyphenated while the King was on the throne, there was nothing he personally could do about splitting the combination; but perhaps if he abdicated in favor...
Most baseball fans agree that mild-mannered Bill McKechnie did the most amazing managerial job in the major leagues last year when, in his first year with the Reds, he brought them from the cellar to fourth place-only six games behind the pennant-winning Chicago Cubs. They might have won the pennant had not Pitcher Lee Grissom, rookie prodigy of the year before, broken his ankle in a stupid attempt at base-stealing toward the end of the season...
Animals inoculated first with human tuberculosis germs and then with the new drug developed only mild infections at the site of the injections. All those inoculated with germs but not the drug died of tuberculosis. The sulfanilamide compound, said Dr. Crossley, does not cure advanced tuberculosis, nor do the animal tests "permit any conclusion . . . as to the [drug's] efficacy in the treatment of this disease...
...name "Psou-Sen-Nes" was inscribed on the chamber walls, and the diggers at first thought the mummy was that of this king, who had the mild distinction of being one of the several hundred fathers-in-law of King Solomon. Later, however, they decided that the mummy's real name was "Sheshonk," because this name was found on the ornaments in the silver coffin. In the presence of Egypt's young King Farouk,* an archeological devotee who rushed to the spot by automobile, three canopic vases (vases with covers in the shape of human or animal heads...