Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...silent man, gentle and mild-mannered from choice, Dr. Klein is able to unleash at will a dynamic personality. His propulsive will drove him to a study of Spanish and Latin-American economic problems (1912-14) ; and the World War found him an instructor of Latin-American history and economics...
...failed to stir up the looked for storm of discussion. And yet the suggestions are sound, the changes practical in the extreme. Now that the excitement and novelty of the first cries for athletic reform in the colleges has died down, the general attitude seems to be one of mild approval in theory and of indifferent tolerance in practice...
Skim ten to twenty-eight feet of water off the surface of Lake Ontario. Pour it into the Mississippi River basin from Cairo, 111., to the Gulf. The resultant swamp will be a mild picture of the conditions which Spring-swollen rivers actually produced in the lower Mississippi valley last week...
...mild picture indeed, for a layer of Ontario suggests a stationary lake. These were 7,500 square miles of rushing, swirling, mud-laden watery avalanche in which Death lurked for hundreds. At the end of the first week the fatalities were put at 200 and increased steadily. About 100,000 valley-dwellers were made homeless, from Cairo to the flat Gulf delta, on both banks...
...safely announced at last that the season has turned for good. Rain has become the mild, innocuous shower bath that characterizes spring downpours, the baseball nines are in the field, the crews crowd the river, and the Vagabond has purchased a pair of vivid socks. Such indications are not to be scorneu, but the skeptic may definitely convince himself of the season by noticing his fellows during the lectures. Despite the best intentions, every eye wanders to the windows, attention follows the eyes, and then goes farther afield to the mountains, shore and great open spaces in general...