Word: mild
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent appointment of a visiting committee for Stillman Infirmary arouses somewhat the same mingled feelings of hope, tolerance, and mild amusement which formerly accompanied the appointment of another Hoover commission. By the addition of this committee to the staff, the University now has a visiting committee for every week in the year, ranging over work which varies from tasting food to testing professors. It is not to be wondered at, then, if this fifty-second visiting committee is welcomed into the official family with a certain blasé reception...
...paralysis at sometime in his life, it was revealed in recent experiments made at the Medical School by the Harvard Infantile Paralysis Commission under the direction of Dr. W. Lloyd Aycock. However, although everyone has the disease, only an occasional child becomes crippled. The average person merely contracts a mild form, which is usually not recognized, and from it develops immunity, subsequent exposure to the virus producing no ill-effects...
...they ever clap his sensitive, scholarly performances. Beethoven and Brahms-Walter's program last week -were painstakingly conservative. The other big-league conductors played almost as safe. Koussevitzky added Scriahin and a touch of his favorite Debussy. Stokowski chose Bach. Wagner and Schubert. Stock finished off with a mild dash of Stravinsky...
...prisoners and long jail terms for the rest, fierce indignation boiled up at Japanese Naval bases, scared the Government into forbidding the Press to print news of what was happening in Naval circles. Tokyo tingled with rumors that Naval hotheads were plotting fresh acts of terror to force out mild Naval Minister Admiral Mineo Osumi. Fire- eating Vice-Admiral Suetsugu, commander of the 2nd Naval Squadron, was supposed to be the plotters' candidate...
...Golden Harvest," this week's feature at the Metropolitan, is a mild bit of adventure apparently inspired by the time-honored farm problem. The producers give taint intimations of attempting an epic but, being unable to solve the problem of surplus wheat any better than a Farm Beard, they content themselves with merigages and government aid for the farmers...