Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...themselves, but to have the office filled by a man who will maintain the unity of the Church and who will abstain from heresy-hunting, except as provided under the Church laws. But there was another candidate last year, Dr. Macartney of Philadelphia. He was not a mild, sweet-tempered, retiring, well-beloved professor. He was a vigorous younger preacher, ready to become a Lion of the Lord. His platform was a war a outrance upon all Liberals. And he was elected by a slim margin. This was due, partly, to William J. Bryan's advocacy. An important factor...
Perhaps this picture was a just one several years ago, when the delegates from preparatory schools, men's, and women's colleges convened together, and the chief attractions for college men were the opportunities for mild summer flirtations and proselyting among sub-freshmen...
...gentle arraignment of professorial hypocrisy, they will scowl, or be enthusiastic, self-consciously. The decline and fall of the soul of Dr. J. Tanksley Parkhurst, who took his Chaucer and his reputation seriously enough to become Dean, is staged at Thurston College, New England; but the winters are mild, the "you-alls" plentiful. Vanderbilt will take it personally. At other colleges, if the book is read, more detached criticism will find it a story starved by satire, a satire clogged with narrative...
House of Commons: ¶E. Thurtle (Labor) hurtled an amendment to the Army estimates through the stiff air of the House. He wanted the death sentence in the Army abolished. After a mild debate, in which invidious comparisons were made between Home and Dominion soldiers, the House voted "No" by 320 to 156 votes. ¶Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill was asked why he had permitted the Government's de- cision to issue a new conversion loan of $150,000,000 to leak into the City. Mr. Churchill cleared himself by stating that a permanent and non-partisan...
...enwraps the Harvard man, apathetically remarks (sic) in an editorial that the lack of a mascot is cause for satisfaction rather than for regret. In part it says: "While other colleges were adopting an entire menagerie of appropriate animals, Harvard remained aloof and chaste, refusing parentage of even so mild a nature. Yale became big brother to a bull pup: Princeton mothered a tiger; but Harvard was the father only to a gentle wish that some day this foolishness might cease...