Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...minutes during this brief session of the Senate, Vice President Curtis presided for the first time in his new capacity. He rapped with his gavel so often and so lustily that Senators began to grumble, to wonder whether he might prove to be other than the meek & mild presiding officer that he was expected to be. He had promised not to criticize the rules of the Senate but he made it look as though he intended to enforce them...
Senate. The Senate passed a resolution asking the Federal Reserve Board to lay before it such information as might be "helpful" in securing anti-speculative legislation. It was a mildly-worded resolution, perhaps because it was edited by Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, one of the authors of the Federal Reserve Act (1913). Not mild, however, was the accompanying speech by ponderous Senator Heflin of Alabama. Wall Street, he bellowed, was the hotbed and breeding place of the worst form of gambling that ever cursed the country. The Louisiana State Lottery slew its hundreds but the New York State gambling...
Hard-faced but mild-mannered Maj. Gen. John Archer Lejeune last week prepared to turn over the swivel chair in which reposes the Commandant of the U. S. Marine Corps, to his sharp-eyed friend Maj. Gen. Wendell Gushing Neville...
Puzzling is the constant (endemic) presence of mild typhus fever in a certain few sections of the U. S. Hospitals in the Atlantic Coast cities from Boston south always have a few cases. They appear in the Piedmont section of the Carolinas. Alabama, Georgia and Florida have quite the largest number sick with typhus. But Mississippi or Louisiana have had none reported to health officers. Tampa, Pensacola, Mobile, Galveston and Houston (among Gulf cities) have had their mild affliction, and the lower Rio Grande Valley from Laredo to Mercedes. On the Pacific Coast only Los Angeles has reported a considerable...
...death rate of this mild endemic typhus is very low, one death in about every 500 cases. The death rate of epidemic typhus is very high, on the average 100 in every 500 cases. In filthy crowded districts, like Serbia during the first years of the War, the rate goes to 300 out of every 500 cases. Victims develop high fever (104 degrees & 105 degrees), chills, vomiting, headache, delirium, exhaustion, toxemia, death...