Word: mildness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Putnam '20, according to a dispatch received from France. This latest achievement makes the third German that Putnam has shot down since his arrival on the battle front two months ago. Putnam and others of his fellow airmen in the Lafayette Escadrille, have been taking advantage on the recent mild weather on the French front and have continued their brilliant exploits by bringing down three enemy machines in all, losing none themselves...
...Bright '19 acted as captain for the informals, supplanting, R. E. Gross '19, who is disabled at the Stillman Infirmary from an injury received in the head by a hockey stick while playing in the scrimmage on Thursday afternoon. He suffered a mild case of concussion of the brain, but has recovered considerably since the shock. Whether he will continue as coach of the informals during the rest of the season has not definitely been announced, but it is expected that he will return to the game as soon as possible. Gross' place as left centre was filled...
...winks a mild blue...
Rowing practice until the mild weather of spring will be carried on at the Locker Building instead of at the Newell Boathouse, as announced early in December. Scarcity of coal has largely actuated the rowing authorities in their decision not to reopen Newell Boat-house until spring. It was felt that the practice did not justify the burning of a half-ton of fuel daily...
...inveterate smoker. He purchased a brand of long, black cigars, which were not labeled Colorado Claro, and these he did not use sparingly. But think of the utter chaos which would result from Phillips Brooks lighting a cheroot in Phillips Brooks House in the year 1917. No mild reproval or honey-worded request would be tendered him. Forcible ejection would be the only method of treatment. Tobacco is now taboo in Phillips Brooks, and it would be so even in the case of the Bishop. Time doth work many marvellous changes indeed...