Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kalamazoo's Upjohn Co., distributors of tolbutamide (trade-named Orinase), reported only mild skin rashes, indigestion or stomach distention in a small proportion of the 10,000 diabetics who have received this drug in the last year...
...carbutamide or tolbutamide tablets may help a vast number of diabetics: persons in middle or late life, usually those of a rather heavy or stocky build, whose disease is relatively mild and stable: 80% of such patients get prompt relief. If the drugs do not work, the patient can be put back on insulin immediately with little or no harm done. A rough-and-ready guide to indicate who may benefit from the new tablets if and when they become available for general prescription use: patients who normally need 40 units of insulin a day or less...
Thus The Apple Cart caused a mild furore in 1929 because Socialist Shaw put in a good word, not to say several magnificent speeches, for monarchy. Shaw's English King Magnus is far more public-spirited, high-minded and civilized than the Labor Prime Minister and, as it turns out, a shrewder tactician. Heckled for such a political about-face, Shaw insisted-in one of those prefaces of his which are more like second times at bat-that King and Prime Minister not only are not winner and loser, but are not even basic antagonists. "The conflict," Shaw asserts...
...chief advantage is that it allows the varsity to use a mild form of multiple offense: the backfield can shift from the T to a single wing formation on successive plays, and thus vary the attack...
Princeton ended Penn's longest winning streak in three seasons at one victory by overpowering the mild Quakers, 34 to 0. Sophomore Fred Tiley scored twice, and Penn did not cross midfield without the aid of a penalty...