Word: mild
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heat cramps, as illness which was daily exacting its toll of human life. Previous scientific study had been based upon the premise that all the workers needed was plenty of water. The Fatigue Laboratory's work indicated that, a deficiency of salt caused both sunstroke and heat cramps. A mild amount of salt in the drinking water proved to be of value in preventing the illness, and in extreme cases, intravenous injections of a saline solution were made. Following the work of the department, not one death occurred among the 3000 workers employed on Boulder...
...make really riotous headlines. At New York University a crowd of students gathered outside the Hall of Fame, yelled "To Hell with Fascism!" The Italians marched out, cheerfully drowned the hecklers with a chant of "Il Duce! Il Duce! Il Duce! II Duce!" Policemen prevented more than a few mild fisticuffs...
...horse, conversing with a German military observer about the future education of the Southern people. Even in anger his words were mild; when he heard that one Mrs. Stevens' house was being made a target for Northern guns while the lady was busily tending the wounded inside, he exclaimed: I wish these people would let Mrs. Stevens alone!" And when Hooker's beaten army had made a safe get away after Chancellorsville, Lee exploded in a mild steam: "Why, General Pender! That is the way you young men always do. You allow these people to get away...
Plymouth: "Ah Wilderness"--Eugene O'Neill in a very mild and mellow mood, despite which he has turned out an excellent play. George M. Cohan does some superb acting. Run ends October...
...that Mrs. Reid is sternly Dry, which most Herald Tribune men, including her husband, are not. Even the rumor that white-crowned Jack Bleeck, who has run the Herald Tribune's next-door bar for years, considered opening his door to women, gave the whole staff a mild case of jitters. Bleeck's affords something of the oldtime barber-shop refuge from feminism, and there nearly every day the staff gathers-Stanley Walker, Grafton ("Wilkie") Wilcox, the able managing editor, wise Geoffrey Parsons, chief editorial writer, and "Oggie" Reid himself...