Word: mild
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Classifications vertically mean Mild Belly Ache, Acute ditto; Cramps and Ulcers are self-explanatory...
...Christian myths." Publication of Father Noel's Life of Jesus*, over which he labored for 30 years and which has left him blind, should clear up the matter of his views. But the lengthy volume may disappoint some religious radicals. Its interpretation of Jesus' life is unexpectedly mild, unexpectedly orthodox on miracles and other matters which do not impinge on social revolution. Of Feeding the Five Thousand, Father Noel says, "Is it too fanciful to suggest that ... we have a picture of an ordered society in which men will no longer grasp for themselves, and trample on each...
...other female. Numerous experienced breeders advise me the female will not breed. On the other hand, about the same number of breeders say they have never experienced any difficulty in breeding the heifer when one of the twins is a male. The veterinary who attended the mother for a mild attack of milk fever says the contention, that heifer calves who have a male twin will prove to be sterile, is just a yarn without foundation...
...entitled "Dear Miss Aldrich," and, strangely enough, it succeeds in being almost funny at times. Edna May Oliver stretches her face to unprecedented longitudinal dimensions, Maureen O'Sullivan glides along in a manner that is just too, too demure, and the audience seemed to enjoy themselves in a mild way. "Dear Miss Aldrich" tells the tale of a girl's fight for recognition in a newspaper man's world; it is not recommended for consumption unless the reader is feeling in a particularly receptive mood...
...Such mild instructions in the front of textbooks as "in case of fire, throw this in" seem mild compared with the verse which turned up in a second-hand textbook bought last week, of which we are only able to print a part...