Word: mild
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Quaker, "A Friendly Whiskey," has been made in the U. S. for 50 years. Today it is marketed by a subsidiary of Schenley Distillers Corp. Some members of the Society of Friends object mildly to Quaker Oil, Quaker Oats, the Quaker Line, Quaker Novelty Puffing. But they object vigorously to Old Quaker whiskey. They object to Old Quaker's implicit identification with the "purity and integrity" of the Quaker faith. They resent the implication that Quakers drink; they aren't supposed to. The Society is displeased that the Old Quaker trademark is a picture of William Penn, standard...
Fletcher Pratt is a little man with a stub pipe stuck sideways under a wispy mustache. His mild eyes behind thick-lensed glasses, his bulging forehead, uncombed scalp lock and careless clothes sometimes make people take him for a clerk in a side-street seed store. Actually, he is the inventor of a naval war game which the Naval War College at Newport, R. I. rates more efficient than its own, and which Landlubber Pratt and enthusiasts play weekly on the floor of his big Manhattan studio. Between battles, Player Pratt steals time to author fat volumes whose swingtime style...
Bruno Rosenheim, brought to England a child exile after his Jewish father's murder, heard nothing from his mother feared she was either dead or in a concentration camp, tried to drown himself. That made mild-mannered Mr. Emmanuel angry. Armed only with pince-nez, attache case and British passport, he went to Germany to find out what had happened to Frau Rosenheim. Instead, he found himself held on a trumped-up charge of political murder, escaped the headsman's block only through the intervention of a Nazi higher-up's mistress, the daughter...
...crowd that packed the small court room gasped with surprise when the Prosecutor demanded the death penalty for "military rebellion through cooperation with the Republic." They had thought that the mild Professor's efforts for peace would excuse his sins. Two days later the court announced its decision: imprisonment for 30 years, a sentence which later can be easily shortened or suspended...
...hydrogen are first ripped out of the butane molecule at a temperature of 1,000° F. with the help of a catalyst (chemical activator). Then two more hydrogen atoms are torn out by repeating the same process. The molecule thus stripped is called butadiene gas. Another catalyst, and mild heat, then link up the molecule in long chains-and the tough, solid substance so formed is butadiene rubber...