Search Details

Word: mildest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...quieted finally, he began. He spoke for half an hour and there wasn't a harsh note in the whole speech. It had all the acid bits of a bowl of breakfast cereal. If the speech was at all typical of the whole tour, then Dewey has made the mildest the blandest campaign for major political office in America in this century...

Author: By Kenneth S. Lynn g, | Title: The Arena Waltz | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...poled happily along canals that were free of January ice for the first time since 1900. With the canals absorbing some 60% of the country's freight traffic, hard-pressed Dutch railroads were breathing easy. In Italy, where the fragrant mimosa had flowered in December, thanks to the mildest winter of the century, cattle and sheep were grazing hoof-deep in verdant pastureland while farmers sent their plows deep into soft, moist earth. "Now that the sun is reaching again into the dark corners of the valley," sighed a pensive, copper-haired peasant woman of Anticoli last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Winter Proud | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...methods (keep taxes high, restrict housing and installment credit) and one new one. He wanted Congress to give FRB the power to boost maximum reserve requirements of commercial banks (the amount of deposits not available for loans) from the present 26% to 51%. This was the "mildest way," Eccles insisted, of curbing credit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lay That Club Down | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

While current premier Sophoulis "tries" to effect liberal rule, Tsouderos elaborated, "his hands are tied by an extreme rightist majority. Illustration of this lies in the dismal failure of the mildest efforts to alter the organization of the Army...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Greek Anti-Royalist Leader Decries Rightist Grip on Sophoulis Regime | 11/20/1947 | See Source »

...hitherto unchecked surge of near-panie that has of late been seeing the mildest New Deal voter as Communist goblin, must inevitable be slowed by a principle of limits. The field of free inquiry, then, must by its nature oppose a mentality which presumes to pass on a man's right to an education in accordance with its whims about his "company." Plainly, the danger of the unchallenged witch hunt is that it can quite conceivably begin defining as ineligible Communist soreheads all students it considers in any way "difficult"--from pacifists to students who support a larger allotment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What's Next? | 7/3/1947 | See Source »

Previous | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | Next