Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Yale faculty ballot on the League of Nations Covenant yesterday resulted as follows: For ratification with mild reservations, 41; ratification with no reservations, 23; ratification with strong reservations, 11; ratification with full Lodge reservations, 4; for the Borah position, none...
...rejection. The efforts at compromise made by the Administration forces met a stone wall of resistance. Senator Edge, Republican, of New Jersey, said to the Democrats: "Here is the treaty. Take it or leave it!" The rights and privileges of the United States could have been adequately safeguarded by mild interpretative resolutions; the Republicans wrote in amendment after amendment--labelled "reservations"--with the avowed purpose of killing the Treaty, at what cost to the world they cared not a whit. The promises they made in the heat of war, the pledges they gave to those men who laid down their...
...sentence to the alleged crime. If he is guilty of three attacks on women, a six months' sentence either denotes an honest doubt of the man's guilt in the mind of the court, or else that circumstances existed of such a mitigating nature that the offense was deemed mild; this could not be were it a case of out and out attack. Is it reasonable to suppose that any man under normal circumstances, convicted of three cases of assault on women, would be given only a six months' sentence by any court...
...half the man who fails to make the most of his time not only fails his country but minimizes the efforts of his fellows. Military training means coordination. Every man must pull at the same wheel to the limit of his ability. The term slacker is too mild for him who is found wanting...
...devote every energy in a conflict which threatens its very existence, when the enemy of that nation surpasses any people in history in deceit, insolence and violence, there is only one course left to follow. It is folly for that nation to treat these prowling, scheming marauders in any mild, milk-and-water manner. It is more than folly, it is self-destruction. Death is the traditional and just fate of proved spies...