Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris supposedly charged with a secret mission. Before long everyone knew the secret. He called on a Daladier lieutenant, Public Works Minister Anatole de Monzie, and suggested that he tell his boss the time was ripe for Paris to woo Rome. Next day King Vittorio Emmanuele read his mild-as-milk speech before the Chamber of Fasces and Corporations. Day after that France's Ambassador in Rome, Andre François-Poncet, called on Crown Prince Humbert at the Quirinal and chatted 20 minutes...
...only trouble with Sunday supplement folk tales about deadly trees and monstrous flowers which trap, devour and digest human beings is that they are as untrue as they sound. But it is true that the plant kingdom takes a mild, sporadic revenge on the plant-eating animal kingdom by arranging for certain plants to trap, devour and digest insects, worms, larvae, tiny fish, Crustacea-even birds, mice, frogs. Last week Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History published a booklet, Carnivorous Plants, by Botanist Sophia Prior, describing these plants and their predatory procedures...
...Mild. When he is not traveling, Paderewski lives in his 26-room villa Riond Bosson at Morges, Switzerland. Once the property of Fouche, Napoleon's Minister of Police, Riond Bosson overlooks Lake Geneva towards towering Mont Blanc. Paderewski has at different times bought half-a-dozen farms and country estates, including a large walnut ranch in California. But Riond Bosson has for 40 years been the nearest thing to a permanent home that Paderewski has had. There, with his sister...
Antoinina Wilkonska, a woman secretary and her mother, and a dozen servants, he lives the mild life of a well-to-do country gentleman...
...recent mild attack for a course on marriage at Harvard seems to me to expose one of the weaknesses of contemporary college education: students seem unable to known how to learn something if there is no course on the subject. If one has any deep desire to get a well-grounded view of marriage he could get reading recommendations from a tutor in Sociology or a Sociology concentrator. There are a few recent books which discuss the subject as would be done in an undergraduate course and two or three of these are adequate...