Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...experts began with a painstaking study of the painting's twelve panels with microscope and X-ray photographs. Then they impregnated the surface with beeswax, and flattened out blisters with warmed spatulas. With mild solvents, they removed centuries of varnish (sometimes twelve layers deep) and retouchings, and they scrupulously avoided doing any retouching of their...
...hand was Defense Minister Brooke Claxton to bid the men bon voyage and to distribute a 30-page orientation booklet titled Off to Europe. Sample advice: "Don't be fooled by the cheap price and mild taste of French wines . . . Forget the fixed impression you have about European women. You can't take liberties with them ; that happens only in the movies ... If you behave decently, the people of Western Europe . . . will take new hope ... If you behave badly . . . you may ensure an eventual Communist triumph...
...gets a deep flesh cut from a jagged instrument, the doctor usually washes out the wound with soap & water, cuts away dead tissue, and stitches up the wound. He may put a mild antiseptic on the surrounding skin. He would never think of cauterizing such a wound with fuming nitric acid and then leaving it open. But if the patient in such a case is the victim of a dogbite, he is all too likely to be subjected to painful cautery, and perhaps scarred for life...
...eleven years as director of Manhattan's Xavier Labor School, Father Philip Carey has become a familiar figure to thousands of working men & women. He is a mild and scholarly Jesuit whose students are electricians, scrubwomen, plumbers, bus drivers, pipe fitters, and wire lathers. The lesson Father Carey teaches them: how to build strong and effective unions...
Officials at Mount Auburn Hospital said last night that Rafael Demos '19, professor of Philosophy, has been "resting well for the past few days, and his condition is good." Last Wednesday, Demos was stricken with a heart attack, described by doctors as "a comparatively mild...