Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Elmer and Elsie are nocturnal. During the day, repelled by too-strong light, they hide in a cozy "hutch" against the wainscoting. When night comes, they venture out in search of the mild artificial light that they crave. Guided by their photoelectric eyes, they creep toward a lamp or the fireplace. When they hit an obstacle they stop, growl faintly, back away and try again at a slightly different angle. Their wanderings often take them all over the house. When they reach a light of the proper intensity, they bask under it blissfully in photoelectric euphoria...
...noted, however, a mild awing by some colleges toward increased instruction of religion, mentioning that 13 schools recently set up new undergraduate departments of religion...
...Istanbul some 30 years ago, a baby was born to a Dutch antique dealer named Westerling and his Greek wife. Frére Adolphe, who afterwards taught young Raymond Westerling in Istanbul's French Catholic St. Joseph school, recalled that he was "a mild, well-mannered, moon-faced little boy." Raymond's later development was not what Frére Adolphe might have expected: he became the notorious "Turk" Westerling, a reckless, ruthless professional soldier and a fanatical Moslem...
...repeal bill also produced a surprise. To make sure that margarine labeling and packaging is obeyed, Congress gave the Federal Trade Commission the power to fine a violator $5,000 for every day he disobeys an FTC order. Under the old law, which the FTC regarded as far too mild, one penalty was levied for each violation no matter how long it continued. Although the change was originally looked on as a weapon only against margarine makers, as finally passed the penalty could be used against all businessmen under FTC jurisdiction...
...grant that we men shall always have to mock our women in a mild way to assuage our feelings of inferiority over our far less significant role in nature. But when this mockery threatens the rights of the individual because of sex, it has gone...