Word: mild
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mild as May on the Santa...
These last week were the highlights of the 59th annual track meet of the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America at Cambridge, Mass. After two mild, damp days on Harvard's Soldiers Field, officials added up the totals, found that the Eastern athletes had won eight of the 15 individual championships while Southern California's team, with 51 points, had piled up the biggest total...
...union.* A wage-&-hours dispute had been settled only a month when last week Mr. Bowles turned up a new fight. He ordered one of his crack linotype operators on the News, Kenneth Irving Taylor, to quit his machine and take the foremanship of the composing room. Compositor Taylor, mild-mannered, bespectacled, member of the Springfield Board of Public Welfare, refused on grounds that his presidency of the local union forbade his being a boss. Sherman Bowles promptly fired him. Out, on their president's heels, walked every other typesetter in the four newspaper shops. Editors of both evening...
...similar power. The weight is about double. Several manufacturers, notably Wiley Post Aircraft Co. of Oklahoma, have experimented with the Ford 4-cyl. engine for airplane use. Others have tried motorcycle engines. Month ago a midget plane called Drone, powered with a 16-h. p. motorcycle engine, caused a mild sensation in London (TIME, May 6). Last week Austrian Pilot Robert Kronfeld flew from London to Paris, at a fuel cost of $1.47, in a glider with a 5-h. p. motorcycle engine...
...gets the raise and marries the girl is scarcely a new idea in movie plots, but Mr. Horton's flair for the querulous, and his well known vacillation and fuss-budgetry make it seem very amusing in a mild sort...