Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Malcolm Herman Soule of the University of Michigan presented a theory that disease germs occur in two forms-one virulent, the other relatively harmless. The presence of the virulent types in the blood incites some agent (its nature yet unknown) to dissociate the virulence, leaving the germs in their mild form. This gentle type the body cells & fluids can easily destroy. It is the presence of that dissociating power, Dr. Soule believes, that renders people immune to disease, rather than any specific germicidal activity of the body fluids...
...City Gone Wild becomes, suddenly and unfortunately, in the midst of a great crackle of bullets and bad-words, a cinema gone mild. It ends in a crescendo of sentimentality when Thomas Meighan, the lawyer for many a badman of the underworld, reforms and, as crusader, discovers that his sweetheart's father is the biggest gun among the gunmen. Eventually, the guilty are punished and the innocent spared...
...spirit of helpfulness and cooperation is nowhere so clearly evident as in the policies of the College Library. No other large depository of valuable books is so generous of its treasures. The rules, though they at times seem irksome and unreasonable, are mild when compared with those in force elsewhere...
After dinner, movies are announced to the mild disgust of Miss Perkins and Mr. Sutherland. Quietly they slip on deck and then descend a companionway to explore the ship. They come to the engine room. They discuss the engine. The engine replies by starting to turn over. Miss Perkins and Mr. Sutherland, rightly assuming that the yacht is in motion, are agitated, try to make their way back to their host, find that they are locked below deck. A pretty kettle of fish...
...chew. For two days the secrets that had been written down so neatly upon paper, were translated into a soft and fragmentary tongue before they perished into smoke. Sir Basil Zaharoff, content to disregard a questionable fame that might have injured a more immediate potency, watched the conflagration with mild attention. He said: "I burned it because I have no reason for satisfying morbid public curiosity." After this arrogant comment and after the last page of the diary had be come a black and feathery tissue, Sir Basil Zaharoff left Paris for Monte Carlo...