Word: milding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Second Race, around a triangle consisting of a ten-mile beat against a mild southwesterly breeze followed by two broad reaches, was more one-sided than the first. Ranger, outmaneuvered at the start, trailed Endeavour for the first hour, then took the lead and held it-10 min. ahead at the first mark, 16 min. ahead at the second, 18 min. ahead at the finish. Skipper Sopwith, discouraged, asked for a one-day postponement...
...India (TIME, Aug. 12, 1935 et ante), that no matter how hard Indians at first kicked against its traces they would end by settling down, pulling in harness. Last week the Congress Party executive committee, chairmanned by Party President Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, a rabid firebrand by comparison with mild St. Gandhi, grudgingly voted to end the boycott begun last spring...
...Jerusalem stacks of freshly printed placards and pamphlets proclaiming martial law were on hand, ready in case of trouble to be posted up or dropped from British bombing planes. The battle cruiser Repulse sped from Malta to Palestine this week, her decks carrying a full flight of airplanes. Mild High Commissioner Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope, who has governed Palestine for several years with a policy of "muddling through," was reported in Jerusalem dispatches as slated to receive a peerage and be replaced in Palestine by drastic Sir John Anderson, the efficiently ruthless sahib who, as Governor of Bengal, suppressed...
...Algonquin village of Patowoameke, from which the Potomac derives its name. When the skull fragments of the old Indian; perhaps a contemporary of John Smith and Pocahontas, were fitted together. Judge Graham gasped in astonishment: "Why, it's as big as a watermelon!" This was only mild hyperbole. The unknown Algonquin's cranial capacity was measured...
...Author, Small, mild-mannered, versatile Ludwig Bemelmans worked first in the U. S. as busboy in a Chinese restaurant. His last restaurant job was managing Manhattan's famed Hapsburg restaurant, whose walls he covered with his own paintings. The author of two charming children's books (Hansi, The Golden Basket], illustrated, as is this one, by himself, he has written and drawn for Vogue, Story, Harper's Bazaar, FORTUNE, designed the stage decor for Noah, decorated the studio of Jascha Heifetz. He is now reported "somewhere in Ecuador on horseback...