Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When I returned from France, after twenty-two months overseas, I came upon an orgy of profiteering that made the French, whom I had considered the original profiteers, seem mild. The sixty dollar bonus which the Magnanimous Congress allowed me hardly sufficed to pay for a cheap suit of clothes. When I tried to obtain work I found the exempted were holding the good positions. I had to be satisfied with what they did not want. And now, because I, with my former comrades, ask justice, I am mercenary...
Continued mild weather this week will go far towards giving Coach Slattery of the baseball team opportunity for choosing the squad which will make the Southern seven days trip in April. In the pitching department especially this will be a hard thing to do for of the large number working out daily the majority are "dark-horses," men who have not pitched before at the University and men whose records are unknown. The only man certain to be included is E. F. Goode, 22, a regular last year. His strength lies in curves and baseball sagacity. A man with...
...Mild weather yesterday afternoon permitted the baseball squad to hold its first outdoor practice of the season, and for one hour and a half the candidates went through a fielding, base-running and batting work...
...four out of the five men on the regular basketball team the winter has been anything but mild. The injuries sustained thus far by the basketball squad have been proportionate to those of the football team. Three of the regular players have been hindered in practice by more or less serious injuries, and even Captain Tolbert, who weathered the football season successfully, has been unable to practice for nearly three weeks because of a broken bone...
...late years, the name of the University has been connected with several unfortunate accidents, due entirely to insufficient preparation for winter climbing. The most recent example is the case of three University students who, at Christmas, nearly lost their lives on Mt. Washington. Their escape was due to prevailing mild weather conditions. Nevertheless, they caused an immense amount of trouble to their friends and to the people who searched the mountain region for them. The men were neither properly clothed, nor properly prepared for such a trip...