Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...quite social, and the young men showed their appreciation by singing "Sweet Dreams Ladies," in an off hand manner, just as the one lone representative of the fair sex was unromantically, she hopes gracefully, ascending to the comfort of an upper berth. This was the only familiarity, surely a mild one, and is it not credible to any society, to any country that such a thing as this can be done? That girls and women can go safely, comfortably, happily from one end of this country to the other, with only their own quiet and modest behavior as a protector...
...witness the match. Among them were about thirty Harvard men, who went down from Cambridge, and several others, graduates, who had come on with ladies form New York, Boston and elsewhere. The conditions for a foot ball match were almost perfect. There was no wind, the air was mild and the ground was more than fair...
...used to say that tennis was only fit for the delicate Harvard man. Can it be that Yale grows mild ? We'll defer the answer until we see the eleven play.-[Record...
...faculty, by which upperclassmen are given the privilege of substituting some optional course for conditions on certain. courses of freshman work, notably the required work in mathematics. To say that this radical change has been hailed with enthusiasm by the students most concerned in its operation is but a mild statement. As far back as student memory reaches, the mathematics of freshman year has been a thorn in the flesh to generations of incoming classes. It is almost appalling to attempt the task of estimating the number of mathematics conditions which have, like a cloud before the sun, obscured...
...cars of this train drew out of the New London depot and steamed up along the river bank to the start. The weather, which had been very threatening in the morning, became more propitious, and after two gave promise of a perfect afternoon for racing. The wind was mild and blowing down the course and the tide was beginning to run out, both the conditions necessary for fast time, and as the crews were known to be in excellent physical condition people expected to see as fine a race as over was rowed on the American Thames. And they were...