Word: mild
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sits quietly in the panelled study of his Lowell House apartment waiting until such time as he will be called upon to deliver his course on "International Economic Policies." Hardly the figure of a sinister plotter, as the Goebbelu press so liken to paint him, he is a pleasant, mild mannered German, possessing just the slightest trace of an accent...
Infantile paralysis last week pursued the course of what medical men still described as a ''mild epidemic." In Chicago, where there were 228 cases, health and education officials still refused to open schools. In Philadelphia, an 11-year-old sufferer was brought to a city hospital from Williamsport and in the ensuing scare, Philadelphia's mayor forbade any hospital to accommodate out-of-town cases. But the biggest infantile paralysis news of the week lay in two new artificial lungs, cheaper and simpler than the $1,000 to $2,450 big steel boxes...
Thus far this year about 5,000 children of the nation have developed poliomyelitis. By this time last year about 2,000 children had it. But the difference does not alarm epidemiologists of the U. S. Public Health Service, who call the current occurrence a "mild epidemic," because its cases are diffused over the entire Mississippi Valley and Great Lakes region, reaching into Canada. Nonetheless, local health officers are worried. Communities are postponing school terms, forbidding children to attend theatres, go to parks, go in swimming pools...
Influential in world affairs out of all proportion to their numbers, Quakers, compared to most sects strong in faith, are peculiarly passive. Fanatical flamboyance of word or deed is abhorrent to them. Their informal meetings, where they sit in sombre clothes heeding the mild words of those of their number who may be moved to prayer, are the antithesis of the average Protestant revival meeting. Their preoccupations are peace, temperance, social service, the Godly way of life. Their Friends Service Committee, active in rehabilitating jobless U. S. coal miners and ministering to the needy of both sides in the Spanish...
...Peter are arrested in an opium den, involved in a scandal that cannot be laughed off. Peter dies in a sanitarium while Bianca, who has tried to save him, and Louis, who let him go down, are at his bedside. They separate, Bianca to go through a period of mild dissipation with the Galère, Louis a season of belated sobriety. Bianca can love a man "enough to be jealous of other women, but never enough to marry him." When she meets the changed Louis after a few years, she knows why. They start life together in a partnership...