Word: mildness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Continued mild weather, and an almost complete disappearance of ice enabled the coaches to continue rowing on the Charles yesterday afternoon. In addition to Coach Haines' Freshman squad which went out in the Leviathan, Coach Stevens had three University eights on the water in barges...
...matter of fact, its area and position are inexactly known, because, no doubt, it varies in extent. It consists of seaweed assembled in that very mild sort of eddy which is developed by the Gulf Stream on the one side and by the Equatorial Current on the other. Similar aggregations of weeds, though smaller in extent, exist under like conditions in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. The weeds, however, are not dense. They grow in patches here and there over the area, affording food for marine life...
...cast as a mild-mannered don from Oxford, who "used to be a philosopher but has retired now". He becomes interested in the family of an impecunious inventor who has spent his whole life working on ideas which the conservative British government brands impractical or over-ambitious. The inventor's older daughter takes to the chorus and the younger to the teaching of dancing in an eternally losing struggle to make both ends meet. "Tiny", the dancing teacher, falls in love with a wealthy but quite useless young man, whose parents-firmly forbid the match. Here the lovable "Uncle Anyhow...
...weeks' bombardment by pamphlets, orators and advertising appeals, the average citizen is not aroused by political questions. The quarreling factions of previous decades have settled down to an equilibrium of mutual toleration. The man in the street is blase over political propaganda: he is not excited even to a mild passion by the most importunate of oratory. If all men accept politics so peaceably, is it reasonable to expect college men to whet their knives for combat...
...mild hostility that has been aroused by the growing strength of this latest graduate school is entirely groundless. Those who fear a contamination of the ideals by the necessarily commercial spirit of the Business School are placing a cheap estimate on these ideals--their strength and worth. The development of the Business School is rather to be commended as the one satisfactory solution of the problem that is now perplexing Williams...