Word: mild
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their treatment Drs. Klingmann & Everts deprive the addict of morphine suddenly and completely, give him small, frequent doses of the drug used in twilight sleep, scopolamine hydrobromide. After the third or fourth dose of scopolamine, wrote they, "the patient develops a mild, low mumbling delirium. He is quite busy, and often amused, by figments of his imagination and the occasional visual hallucinations of a not unpleasant variety-picking at imaginary insects on the bed and the like. He cooperates very well, obeys commands promptly and partakes freely of food and drink, and the enteric and urinary elimination is good...
Smoking incessantly and speaking in a mild, pleasant manner, the Bruins' captain said that he had seen both the Harvard Varsity and Freshman squads in practice at the Garden. While admitting that there can be little comparison between the 80,000 Americans and the 3,000,000 Canadians who play hockey, Shore feels that there are plenty of Americans, among them certain Harvard pucksters, who "ought to make good if given a chance...
...Bride Comes Home" is another Claudette Colbert picture in what has become the traditional Colbert manner. It tells the story of a pugnacious girl (Claudette Colbert) and an aggressive man (Fred MacMurry) who fight and love one another. It is amusing in a rather mild way, but it does not have the robust humor of "It Happened One Night." Each of the pictures in the cycle that has followed the latter triumph has been less light, and more dependent on tenuous plots and slapstick humor. However, the two stars, with the assistance of Robert Young, make all they...
Hence, this week the U. S. Senate sees Elmer Austin Benson take a place beside Minnesota's Hendrik Shipstead as No. 2 Farmer-Laborite Senator. Benson's age: 40. His manner: mild, cautious. His religion: Lutheran. His disposition: silent Norwegian determination. His habits : abstemious. His appearance: well-groomed. His instinct: righteous conservatism in everything except politics. Until two years ago he was a bank cashier in his native Appleton. Minn., a man who displayed his deep-seated ambition by being hardworking, meticulous, self-denying and an ardent Farmer-Laborite. Then Governor Olson made him State Securities Commissioner, later...
...Unseasonably mild weather caused a break in anti-freeze alcohol, the price dropping 5? per gal. to 44?. Of the 36,000,000 gal. of anti-freeze compounds used annually in the U. S. about 30,000,000 gal. are alcohol. Biggest anti-freeze company is U. S. Industrial Alcohol...