Word: mildered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rain and milder today and tonight. Highest temperature...
Last week, the Senate passed a milder measure which incorporated a bill outlawing the Communist Party with one requiring college presidents to dismiss Communists from their teaching staffs and another demanding loyalty oaths of all lawyers. The Senate also suggested court action against organizations and persons advocating overthrow of the government, but did not mention Communists...
...equal temperature) shift northward on the weatherman's maps, the northern limits of warmth-loving crops move northward, too. In eastern Canada, cereals can be grown 100 miles farther north than ever before. The change is due partly to better varieties and better cultivation methods, but partly to milder Canadian climate. Southern Ontario is already experimenting with cotton...
...fiercer aspects, Joe Jones* was one, of the angriest proletarian painters of the 1930s. His canvases were packed with demonstrators, motherless waifs and starving victims of capitalist greed. In his milder moods, he turned out farm scenes in the best Midwestern tradition, with bright, theatrical coloring. Said Joe Jones, simply and violently: "I want to paint things that knock holes in walls...
...other three reports, the committee also touched on some broader aspects of crime in the U.S. It gave the back of its hand to Florida's Governor Fuller Warren (whose name "cropped up frequently in questionable connections"), and suggested-although in markedly milder terms than in earlier attacks-that William O'Dwyer had not always kept the best of company during his years as mayor of New York. The Senators urged a federal law legalizing wiretapping, and a privately financed national crime council for coordination of the fight against corruption and gangsterism on the local level...