Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Very mild," commented Washington on Mr. Johnson's speech, "unexpectedly mild...
...Johnson's choice of a campaign manager was not unexpectedly mild. He chose Frank H. Hitchcock, who belongs to the tooth-and-nail school of campaign management. He conducted Taft in 1908 (and was Postmaster General in Taft's Cabinet) ; he conducted Hughes in 1916; and he conducted Leonard Wood on an expensive trip to the Convention in 1920. He is known as a specialist in Southern delegates, and there should be a keen duel between him and C. Bascom Slemp for the delegations from the South? although there will not be so much to quarrel over since the Southern...
...confections as we spend for military purposes, for tobacco nearly four times, for perfumery, jewelry and other items of adornment nearly five times, and for theatres, cabarets and similar amusements more than three times. Military preparations cost us, roughly, one-eighteenth of what we spend for luxuries, amusements and mild vices...
Nearly a month's extra practice is the prospect which, due to the mild weather, Coach Stevens and his staff have before them. In former years the river has usually been rendered unnavigable by cold weather early in November, but owing to the exceptionally warm stretch of the past two weeks there is now every prospect of continued work on the water up to the Christmas holidays...
...probable that these crews,--the Freshman Red and White eights, the 150-pound eights, and the University four oars--will gain at least an extra week of practice, and that, with mild weather, they will continue to work out until the Yale game...