Word: mild
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That all the cases were "very mild" is indicated by the fact that only five of the fifty cases were sent to the Stillman Infirmary, Dr. Murray stated. The other forty-five as well as those who are not seriously ill should attend classes, he said...
...barbershops were mussed up but these were conspicuous exceptions to local rule of labor against labor. By last week the daily din of brawling, shooting and window-smashing had reached such a pitch that the city revolted. Clamped down by Acting Mayor Robert Early Riley was a sort of mild martial law with a stiff midnight curfew and the entire police force on twelve hour shifts. Emergency authority was granted to hire more officers, buy additional arms and equipment and padlock the haunts of thugs and "goon squads...
Having investigated the Portland uproar the local Council of Churches wired President Roosevelt: "The local situation has reached an intolerable stage, and national influence ... is necessary to save the situation from serious consequences both to labor and the public." Portland's usually mild Mayor Joseph K. Carson, in Washington for the Mayors' Conference, dashed off a letter to Chairman Madden of the Labor Board demanding immediate intervention or "that you admit your inability to handle the situation or power to alleviate the workers...
Lest Americans become aroused because of Japanese cruelty to Chinese, Missionary Professor Fred D. Gealy of Tokyo assured the meeting that the Japanese are at least kind to animals. Said he: "The Japanese people are commonly a mild-mannered people. . . . From ancient times, mendicant priests have carried a shakujo, or staff, to the top of which are affixed clanging metal rings. By striking it on the ground they would frighten away worms and insects that might be in their path to prevent trampling upon them. And even modern universities hold memorial services for animals dissected in the study of anatomy...
...distinguished from measles is scarlet fever, whose rash is bright yellow-red and which gives a strawberry color to the tongue. Scarlet fever rash rarely touches the face. The rash of German measles, a mild disease, is rose-red, or brown...