Word: mild
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they have been trying to cry their way to Victory. Whatever happens they are the injured party. It often works." Last week this judgment of experience was again confirmed when howls of German grief went up at the release in London by Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald of a mild White Paper in which the United States, the Soviet Union, the Japanese Empire and the German Reich were cited as engaged in strengthening their armed forces. The conclusion drawn by His Majesty's Government was that Britain must proceed to strengthen hers. Neither U. S. citizens, Russians nor Japanese...
...publicly tied to a denunciation of Hearst "Americanism." The superintendents knew they were on a spot when they trooped into the final meeting. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace raised liberal hopes briefly by glooming over the end of capitalism. But when he was done the Resolutions Committee reported out one mild resolution on the Great Issue: "We affirm our unqualified belief in the principle of academic freedom...
...Tall, mild-mannered Keith Brown, who hopes to clear 14 ft. 6 in. before he graduates next June, is the latest addition to an extraordinary line of Yale pole-vaulters who, starting with Thomas Shearman in 1888, have since won the intercollegiate championship 20 times. Recent Yale pole-vaulters, like Sabin Carr, Olympic champion in 1928, and his contemporary Fred Sturdy, owe their success less to the New Haven climate than to the most famed of all the vaulters who preceded them, Alfred Carlton Gilbert, Olympic champion in 1908. Gilbert's study of pole-vaulting over 30 years...
Coos & Bombs-In foreign policy Herr Hitler's cleverness characteristically exhibits itself by eschewing the blatant, bellicose tone with which he delights Germans. It was no mean feat for Der Reichs-fűhrer to achieve last week a declaration so mild that it was buried by the Jewish-sympathizing New York Times on page four...
Dickens is only a mild expletive to most moderns, but to some it is still a fighting word. In the ebbtide quarrel about whether Dickens was an overrated hypocrite or a great man who actually got his due, Author Kingsmill tries to stir up the dying ripples whereas Author Maurois does his tactful best to pour oil on them. U. S. readers, not because they have read Dickens' vituperative American Notes or Martin Chuzzlewit but because Kingsmill's attack is more convincing than Maurois' defense, will be inclined to agree that Dickens was not all his partisans...