Word: milded
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Amory's "Lady in Gray," a sprightly story of Cosmopolitan calibre, begins with a pick-up in a Pullman. It contains a mild satire on the modern best seller, and is easy and graceful...
...preventive inoculations are three in number, coming at intervals of seven to ten days and are practically painless. Occasionally within twenty-four to forty-eight hours after inoculation there is some disturbance of a mild nature. In the past students have been given the opportunity of receiving these inoculations but only a small number, mainly those who are going on prolonged trips or to the war zone, have availed themselves of this privilege. It is felt that this is an opportunity for protection against a serious disease that the undergraduate body should welcome. It can be done, free of charge...
...approach of the Freshman Banquet makes it pertinent to make a few remarks about the alcoholic drinks issue. We know now--more clearly and absolutely than before--that liquors, however mild or in however small quantities are poisonous to the individual, not to mention their wider effects. Let us accept these facts if we have any devotion to knowledge at all, and carry out the consequences. After the Student Council has arranged a settlement of the Freshman Banquet matter, it will do well to turn to the other classes. There is no adequate reason why beer should be served...
...could translate a little Latin into his mother tongue, he could not be tried by a civil court for any crime. He could claim "benefit of clergy" and be tried in an ecclesiastical court--and the ecclesiastical court was very likely to pardon, or to inflict comparatively mild punishment...
...aspect which the critics have failed to consider is the improvement of athletics in the past decade. Yapping and rattling on the baseball field have become noticeably less in recent years, and have been agitated against in several large universities: the football games of the present are certainly mild compared with the tales we hear of the "old days" and good feeling, as a rule, prevails between members of rival teams. A comparison of conditions is useful in considering the athletic problem, and it throws a ray of sunshine on the dark prospect seen by the writers in the Atlantic...