Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Faces & Finances. One of the most important men in Conant's and Harvard's life is a moonfaced, mild-mannered fellow with the unimpressive title of Secretary to the University. New England-born David M. Little has been a close friend of Jim Conant's since Shop Club days, once taught English at Harvard and is now Master of Adams House (one of the seven residences for upperclassmen). He has a Jim Farley memory for faces, dates & places, and knows more alumni by their first names than any other man alive...
Modest Monthly. In a spare, four-room suite in Washington, spare, mild-mannered Clarence (Union Now) Streit, 50, was about to launch Freedom & Union as "the journal of the World Republic that does not yet exist." Barring printing delays, the first modest issue of 20,000 copies would go to subscribers next week...
...down amidst mild applause...
Though three other officers and ten smaller fry were also on trial, archvillain of the piece was Major Sueyo Matoba, a slim, mild, scholarly Jap with a sadistic nature which had won him the nickname "Tiger of Chichi Jima." Major Matoba had stomach ulcers; he also loved sake...
...rate of 31,000 a day les Québecois poured into town-children, priests, nuns, farmers from Beauce and Beaupré. On the fairgrounds down on the flats of St. François parish they drank gallons of petite bière d'épinette, a mild sort of Gallic root beer; ate tons of frites (French fried potatoes); the children rode the miniature airplanes and the loop-the-loops, jubilantly dizzy...