Word: mild
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harbury's colleagues were puzzled that the relatively mild shock he received killed him. "Many of us have taken greater shocks," Chaffee said. Harbury bad only a slight burn on the finger and he wasn't held to the line at all. There was just a flash...
...Wirt A. Warren, a mild-mannered physician with a good practice in Wichita, Kans., sat down and wrote a letter to the Department of Justice in Washington. "This will inform you," he wrote, "that I am not obeying and do not intend to obey . . . that portion of the [Selective Service] act ... providing a penalty for knowingly counseling . . . evasion of registration or service . . . The act is a law which I feel morally bound to break...
...hours to clear one acre instead of the estimated two. Kongwa soil hardens until it becomes "like a tennis court." Tractors had been mishandled by native labor. Even African animals turned saboteurs. Wild pigs made a goober feast of one experimental farm, and telephone lines were constantly broken by mild but shortsighted giraffes who got entangled in the wires...
Neohetramine did show encouraging results last winter when it was elaborately tested, under ideal testing conditions, in Sing Sing prison, in a convent and in a girls' seminary. Of 200 patients who got the recommended dosage, 182 had no colds all winter, 13 mild colds were nipped in the bud, and only four bad colds developed. Among the 300 untreated controls, only 59 were cold-free and 179 had bad ones...
...over." There was scarcely a Saturday night that Jesse's gang didn't shoot up Liberty, the county-seat. There Jesse was arrested for the first & only time in his life-by a Republican sheriff who let him and his gang go with a mild warning "to mind their Ps and Qs." The James gang sneered. In February 1866 they thundered back into Liberty and held up a bank...