Word: mild
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inaccurate report. I did not say that either our College or its students were not fortunate in personality and social prestige. ... I merely said that they had no advantage in personality over the students of other colleges as they had in scholastic discipline. Reports range all the way from mild modifications of what I did say to an out-and-out declaration on my part that they were inferior and unfit to study medicine. However, things like this will happen...
...wave of complaints against the way CWA was run was only a mild ripple compared to the comber of complaints against the plan to stop running CWA altogether. Since Nov. 25 Mr. Hopkins has put 4,000,000 men on his payroll, paid them with checks on the U. S. Treasury and used up most of $400,000,000 allotted to him. This form of direct relief was originally planned to last only until Feb. 15 when PWA projects and business recovery were scheduled to provide fresh jobs. Not only pick & shovel men laying sidewalks, building wharves, working on public...
...true as Swedes believe that their scrawny old King Gustaf talked the roughest sort of turkey to Chancellor Adolf Hitler on his last visit to Berlin, then His Majesty has few more ardent admirers than the U. S. Ambassador to Germany, outwardly mild but inwardly rampant William Edward Dodd, onetime professor of history at the University of Chicago...
...advice that you go in the beginning of the winter to a mild, warm, southern climate and remain through the season. If, however, you elect to remain in your Virginia home on the Potomac, it is important that you take every precaution against catching cold. Be especially careful to avoid undue exposure in cold, wet weather...
...stopped in his bold career by a high-minded Governor. As everyone knows, Democrat Herbert Henry Lehman is the great and good friend of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Very sick (appendectomy) last autumn when Mayor LaGuardia won the first reform vic tory in New York City in 20 years, mild-mannered Governor Lehman was dutifully on deck last week for the opening of his Legislature. A question affecting the governing laws of New York City (pop. 7,000,000) is always the most important question in New York State (pop. 12,600,000). Therefore, the Governor, himself a member...