Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fair and mild today with the highest temperature in the middle 50s. Increasing cloudiness and not so cold...
...mild epidemic of German measles hit the University and Radcliffe this week. Twenty measles patients are currently in Stillman Infirmary, while the 'Cliffe Health Center reports eight cases of both regular and German types...
...evading female critics, enraged politicos and other predators with little more than a lazy movement of the fins. Like a good dinner hostess, she is able to dart into controversial subjects (birth control, Senator Joe McCarthy, racial segregation) and out again, getting her strong opinions across in a deceptively mild way. She has a gift for the unquotable sentence: those who attempt to pin her down on the evidence of her words find her vagueness irritatingly artful. It is-but the manner has by now become second nature to her. She knows what she wants to say, and when...
Both Rhubarb and Francis, the grey, mild-mannered first-prize winner of last year's Patsy, are the proteges of Independent Director Arthur Lubin. Lubin produced Francis in 1949 for $624,000, grossed $4,000,000, and thus .helped put Universal-International Studios comfortably in the black. He followed with three more mule films. Francis Goes to the Races is already popular. Francis Goes to West Point and Francis Covers the Big Town are still to be released...
...Weber, possib'y today's foremost Hardy scholar. In Hardy and the Lady from Madison Square, Weber unearths the story of Rebekah Owen, a New York woman who was smitten by Hardy's books, visited England, where she was apparently smitten by Hardy himself. After some mild tea-drinking and book-autographing plus years of letter-writing, she was finally brushed off by the aging and impatient author. Though the book is for dyed-in-the-wool Hardy fans only, it is another example of the interest the man continues to hold while the George Merediths fade...