Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Snow, or rather the lack of it, has been the chief headache to the skiers so far this year. The mild winter has forced the cancellation of more than half the scheduled meets. The team has had only an occasional practice in the Boston area with the bulk of their skiing taking place in Verment and New Hampshire...
Last summer's losses are nothing to what might happen next summer. Rust is a quick-growing fungus that spreads by microscopic spores carried on the wind. "The spores," says Agriculture, "migrate like wild birds." North winds blow them south in fall, where they spend the mild winter on wheat in Texas and Mexico. When the weather gets warmer, they are blown back to the wheat belt by southerly winds...
Immunization experiments on mice are being done by John E. Gordon, head of the Department of Epidemiology in the School of Public Health. He found that litters of immunized mothers were protected against mild forms of the disease for two months after their birth. Virus administered after that time had no crippling effects; thus the mice were immunized against the disease and could transmit some of this protection to their off-springs...
Meanwhile, the disease was spreading south at a rapid pace. The Boston Braves were unable to work out yesterday in Brandentown, Florida, as flu struck down three key players. It was rumored that Ted Williams had a mild case of influenze and was being treated by trainer Jack Fadden...
What happens to Langrish after that, in The Image of a Drawn Sword, proves that British Novelist Jocelyn Brooke can create as violent fictional disturbances as anyone now writing in English. Compared to it, his first tense little gothic novel, The Scapegoat (TIME, Jan. 9, 1950), was a mild emotional debauch...