Word: mild
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time to preside temporarily over the Senate. Last week the new Senator from Louisiana made her maiden Congressional speech, not on the Senate floor but in the privacy of a Public Lands Committee hearing. In pleasant contrast to the loud histrionics of her late husband & predecessor, it was a mild little plea for the passage of a bill to enlarge Chalmette National Historical Park, on the site of the Battle of New Orleans. "Had we not won that battle," said Widow Long of the great victory which Andrew Jackson won 15 days after the War of 1812 was over...
...Society of Jesus, its supremacy in the U.S.S.R. to that of the Pope in his temporal glory. They quote Stalin: "We may say that the dictatorship of the proletariat is substantially the dictatorship of the Party, as the force which effectively guides the proletariat." The Webbs poke mild fun at the Bolshevik fondness for the word "dictatorship,'' think it a misnomer for the Party's "inspiration, evocation and formulation of a General Will'' among Russia's millions. The Party is outside the constitution; it broods over the body politic like the spirit over...
Listeners who had formed their impression of Communism from the Hearst Press must have received a distinct shock when small, sandy-haired Comrade Browder, son of a Kansas schoolteacher and longtime certified public accountant, began to speak in the tone of a mild, ingratiating Midwestern college professor. As he went on, alert listeners realized that most of his sentences could have been lifted almost verbatim from the speeches of the nation's most famed and respectable public characters. Samples...
...most imminent danger of assassination remained last week nearly all prominent Japanese who had any reputation as mild men or liberals and were not identified with the Japanese Army's murderously inclined "Ginger Group" (TIME, March...
...tutorial work given Freshmen during the last half of the year should be a mild dose indeed. The main function of the system would be to familiarize the student with work in a field of concentration, so that one of the weakest spots of the tutorial system as it now stands, that of switching back and forth from one field to another, would to some degree be mitigated. If the Freshman were allowed to select his field of concentration in January instead of in the spring, he could find in his tutorial work from February to May an interesting purgatory...