Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...better kind of phosphorus for matches is the red variety, which is used on the box in making safety matches, and catches fire if you rub it hard enough with the powdered glass and active chemicals in the head of the match. This is a mild-mannered, quiet sort of a substance, it doesn't catch fire in the air until you heat it quite hot, it won't dissolve in anything, and it can be eaten without any discomfort...
...White is a great chemical manufacturer. Atterbury, famed "General," is operative head of the Pennsylvania Railroad. They aggregate no mean amount of prestige. Their offer is to function as an operating company for the Government in the manufacture of a metallic magnesium aluminum alloy, which has the strength of mild steel, would revolutionize railway car construction, cheapen transportation, provide stocks of metal?discovered by the Germans in the World War? for airplanes and dirigible structures...
...fact, the pacifists should be thankful for the presence of the Unit, for there will be in any class a group of young men of robust instincts and patriotic tendencies who might feel inclined to pacify the pacifists to the damage of the latter if there were not a mild-mannered Col. Browning on the job as a guide toward tolerance. And besides, what business is it of the pacifists if three hundred odd students desire to acquire the gentlemanly art of equitation and lead the strenuous life without the expense of a trip Wyoming. Not to mention the pistol...
...adults appreciate most keenly the penetrating delineation of the White Knight, 'mild, chivalrous, ridiculous, and rather touching...
...annual special issue, which is to come out April 1. The "Advocate" will publish a "Newer Republic" number, a sort of mild satire of the "New Republic" magazine. This will be the first direct parody since the "Atlantic Monthly" issue was published three years ago with a success that created very favorable comment in literary circles...