Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Interference which in New York State is in the form of an optional hint all too easily turns to iron-clad regulation as in the Tennessee imbroglio And even the mild allowance of half an hour a week from school-time is scarcely compatible with a healthy public self-respect. State encouragement of theology is an introversion of initiative implying a lack of confidence in the national fiber--a doubt striking at the foundation of morality...
...Sinn Fein ultra-die-hards such a program is too milky-mild. They hold that "the Irish Free State is not Irish, is not free, and is not a state."? They are still out for cracked crowns and shillalahing upon the green. They will have none of "working from within...
...cousin, John Davison Jr. (four years younger), or his revered uncle, John D. Sr.** Spectators noted his heavily tanned and freckled complexion, his horn-rimmed spectacles in their gold frame, his slanting forehead, his meticulously parted hair. He answered questions for the most part readily, always frankly, in a mild, almost diffident voice. One trick of his amused the attendants. He pinches his lips between thumb and forefinger every time he must reflect for a phrase...
...influence may be the fading of the anti-typhoid vaccine given the War troops in 1917 and 1918. This vaccine was presumed to be efficacious for about seven years. Also an uninoculated group of males has grown up since the War. Then too early in 1925 there was a mild epidemic of this fever caused by infected oysters; this source was quickly shut off. The fever may be borne by water or milk; but in the large cities the water supplies seem to have been well guarded, the milk supplies too for the most part. Attributing the occasional welling...
...Developed for smallpox by Edward Jenner (1749-1823). In all vaccinations the patient is deliberately given a mild attack of the particular disease he wants to guard against. The blood then develops certain properties which kill off the attacks of that disease, except in the very greatest concentrations...