Word: mild
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fifth of the city's population, were ill with what Health Commissioner John Peter Koehler called intestinal influenza. Symptoms: severe abdominal pains, accompanied by nausea or vomiting. Only one victim died. Another victim was Dr. Koehler himself. Said he: "Ninety-five percent of the cases are very mild. I don't believe the disease is any more dangerous than seasickness...
...epic of U. S. railroad building ended with a mild clink in 1931. In that year Arthur Curtiss James tamped a golden spike into a convenient tie near Bieber, Calif., formally completing 200 miles of new track connecting Great Northern R. R. with his Western Pacific. After that, paralysis descended on what had once bean the lustiest field of U. S. business pioneering. Total mileage of new track laid by all U. S. railroads plummeted from 748 in 1931 to 163 in 1932, collapsed to 24 miles in 1933. In 1934, 76 miles of new track were laid, last year...
...listened with mild amusement tonight to your re-enactment of the Princeton Punks' idea of something funny...
...were amiably chatting one afternoon last week in the Marion County Jail in Indianapolis. One was a mild-mannered, bespectacled Kentucky feudist named George W. Barrett, first man sentenced to death under the new Federal law which makes the killing of a U. S. officer a mandatory capital offense by hanging. The other was jovial, mastiff-jowled Phil Hanna, an Illinois farmer...
These Three (Samuel Goldwyn). When Producer Samuel Goldwyn paid $40,000 for the screen rights to Lillian Hellman's famed play, The Children's Hour, the Hays organization had a mild attack of frenzy. The Children's Hour relates the case of two young schoolteachers whose lives are wrecked when one of their pupils accuses them of Lesbianism. This seemed to the guardians of the cinema industry's morals so appalling that they not only banned both the title of the play and its plot but refused to allow Producer Goldwyn even to announce that...