Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...average of $122.80 per share, caused a stir in Wall Street. Current reports that Pierre Samuel du Pont, head of the concern and chairman of the board of directors of General Motors Corp., and his associates had bought many shares of U. S. Steel with private resources stirred mild rumors to the effect that Mr. du Pont was seeking Judge Elbert H, Gary's chairmanship in U. S. Steel. Bankers closely connected with Judge Gary, now in poor health, denied those reports...
...hearing proceeded from 10 a.m. until midnight, almost without a break. Then Assassin Kovenko was sentenced to life imprisonment, the Court, however, recommending that this be commuted to 15 years. In Moscow. Promptly, the Soviet Workers' Gazette, Moscow, headlined: "Unheard-of mild sentence, which Kovenko hears with beaming face. Murder for which the Polish Government is responsible covered by Polish court...
...Quincy, Mass., last week, one Benjamin F. Earl, argued that to inject anti-rabies serum into dogs was cruel and needless because, he believed, there was no such disease as rabies. Dogs clubbed to death or shot as "mad" suffered only from distemper or a similar relatively mild disease. To establish his belief he offered to let any rabid dog bite him. No rabid dog was handy; no experimenter callous enough to jeopardize Theorist Earl's life...
Five years ago, Edward O. Leader came from the University of Washington to coach rowing at Yale. It would be mild to say that he revolutionized the sport in the East. He brought more men out for crew than for football; he gave Yale an unbroken record of victories, including the Olympic Championship in 1924; he influenced rowing methods at many another university...
Prince Valerian Ossinski provided the only (mild) sensation of the week when he protested to the League that the Swiss police were guarding him against assassination so effectively that he was virtually a prisoner in his own hotel. Soon League officials persuaded the Swiss to desist. Prince Ossinski later spoke before the Conference, urging all nations to cancel their War debts, lower immigration barriers, and join with Soviet Russia in a program of universal disarmament. He spoke effectively, and some dozens of delegates crowded down near the rostrum, applauded...