Word: mild
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These words, coming without warning, shocked and surprised both Washington and Puerto Rico. U. S. management of Puerto Rico, like U. S. management of other colonies, has been neither very good nor very bad. Puerto Rico has given the Washington government a few mild aches & pains but nothing officially serious enough to indicate that President Roosevelt was even considering a quick amputation from U. S. sovereignty of this Caribbean territory...
TIME [April 6] requests the comments of disabled veterans on the "Sucker" ad. My own personal reaction is one of mild amusement, for the following reasons...
...your printing this little manifesto for two reasons: 1) Lest Papa Godowsky (who reads TIME) misinterpret our motive. 2) Lest the thousands of composers among your 600,000 readers deluge Brother Hilb with their manuscripts. Then, if this letter is not already too long, may I make an extremely mild protest at your emphasis upon our "profitable puzzle-&-game volumes." It is true: twelve years ago this month we published the first of a series of Cross Word Puzzle Books which turned out to be a pleasant and profitable venture. Since that time, however, we have published more than...
...induced him to pose for his portrait in return for a series of fairy stories. Before the portrait was finished, methodical Painter Millais found it necessary to have an iridescent glass sphere especially blown so that he could copy the tints of a soap bubble. The canvas created a mild artistic scandal when it was sold to Lever Bros. Ltd. for Pear's soap advertising. As such it soon became Sir John Millais' best known work...
Symptoms: Mind "apprehensive, alert, anxious and restless . . . a peculiar analogy [to symptoms] seen in pneumonia.'' Closed eyelids tremble. "Gnawing hunger pain in pains the of ulcer.'' epigastrium not Gurgling unlike in the the intestines "and sometimes a mild watery diarrhea. . . . Increase in sexual functions...