Word: mildest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cambridge is not the only victim of student riots. The Sailing University, aboard the S. S. Ryndam, evidently also has its off-shore moments and they are not according to the authorities of divers foreign ports, of the mildest nature. In Tokyo the studious young wanderers disported themselves in a manner deemed both boisterous and annoying; reports from the barrooding were of extraordinary business and from the police of grievous wounds to their civic dignity." No "official actions" was taken and presumably the University continues to swim its way around the globe, trusting in the triumph of mind over matter...
General Lassiter, as everyone knows, is considered one of the mildest-mannered and most ably diplomatic of U. S. officers. He was despatched from Panama to Tacna-Arica (TIME, Feb. 1) reputedly because his reputation for tact in dealing with Germans when his troops took over the Coblenz bridge head (1919) suggested that he might be able to cool Latin hotheads...
...Vitus Dance. At Albany, Dr. H. L. K. Shaw of the State Department of Health talked over the radio last week about St. Vitus Dance, the mildest, most hopeful form of chorea. Children, especially girls, are susceptible to this disease, which is usually the expression of mental exhaustion, although it may be an end result of maldevelopment or of various contagious diseases?tonsillitis, measles, whooping cough. Cure is usually effected by quiet surroundings, rest in bed, full diet with plenty of fatty ingredients (milk, eggs), and above all the eliminating of the causative conditions. Relapses occur?the signs of trembling...
...present editorial board of the CRIMSON may be so unanimous in its approval of the proposed division into colleges that it is unwilling to admit to its news and editorial columns even the mildest criticism of that phase of the Student Report, even the vaguest suggestion that the whole of our student body and the whole of intelligent out side opinion does not partake equally of the CRIMSON's enthusiasm for this new proposal. But at least the "Communications" column should be open to expressions of the opposite point of view...
...soul with Gandhi, and his fervor caused his incarceration for a brief spell at Alipore. Noncoöperation was soon proved to be leading nowhere. Of the 46 million Bengalese, not 10% voluntarily supported the movement; while an insignificant but dangerous section of the population thought non-coöperation the mildest and most absurd of protests. So long as the masses could bathe uninterruptedly in the holy waters of the Ganges, what did it matter to them who ruled India? And, farther south, the millions of Tamils, Telagus, and others knew little, saw little, felt little, except the heat...