Word: mild
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was a lot of grumbling, but little happened. CWA workers staged "strikes" and demonstrations. Sometimes unruly protesters got into mild scuffles with police. But Harry Hopkins stuck to his course, fired CWA workers even faster than he had promised. To prevent suffering and minimize protest, those fired were told to establish that they were in want and, having done so, were given "work relief," just enough hours each week to provide subsistence...
...election. When blackjacks were pocketed and votes were counted, Kansas Citizens knew the worst: The Fusion attempt to break the rule of Boss Thomas Joseph ("Big Tom") Pendergast's Democratic machine had failed. Re-elected by a 59,566 plurality was Boss-backed Mayor Bryce Byram Smith, a mild-mannered baking company official in his spare time. Defeated was Dr. Albert Ross Hill, 64, anti-Boss Democrat, onetime (1908-20) president of the University of Missouri, holder of a dozen college degrees and author of The Epistemological Function of the "Thing in Itself" in Kant's Philosophy...
...Shatter'd Lamp is helped through some awkward soliloquies by intelligent performances, notably the hollow-eyed acting of Effie Shannon. She plays the Jewish wife of mild, aryan, pacifist Professor Opal (Guy Bates Post) who teaches in a Bavarian university. Their son Karl (Owen Davis Jr.) and his fiancée are admirers of Adolf Hitler. But when Karl's bigwig Storm Trooper friend Johannes von Rentzau learns that his mother is Jewish, a Nazi blight falls on the house. Professor Opal loses his job, bank account, friends; Karl his Storm Troop membership and fiancée. Frau...
...cycles of two or three years. Best explanation of the cycle is that, having immunized most of a city's schoolchildren, measles does not strike again until a fresh, fairly large crop of children have come along. But, because an epidemic's end-cases are usually mild, some investigators think the causative virus may grow weak, need a year or two to regain virulence...
...been exposed to measles, most highly contagious of all diseases, a doctor should be called at once. He will draw 30 cc. of blood from an adult who has had the disease, preferably one of the child's parents. Injected with this, the child will have a mild case of measles, be henceforth immune. Should this be neglected and a child grow very ill it must have blood from someone who has just recovered from the disease. Last week Washington's Children's Hospital, announcing that ten children in its care faced death without such treatment, sent...