Word: mildness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fast game. The Freshman basketball team, with E. L. Lightbourn as its captain, beat Tilton in a tight game on Saturday, and M. I. T. Freshmen on Wednesday by a safe margin. A Freshman crew was able to row on the river on Thursday because of the unusually mild weather conditions, and other crews immediately followed its example...
...this season the 1927 team has given promise of ability, since it has scored 27 points to its opponents' two in the three games played. Unlike former first year teams, the men have had the use of the Arena two afternoons a week, and under the mild weather conditions, this factor has been of great advantage...
...piece de resistance for the critics was Bellows' Crucifixion. There, set amid violent lights and shadows, with "portentous storm clouds swirling over Calvary," a gaunt, muscular, physical Christ depends from the cross. The sweet Christ, the mild Christ, the frail Christ are not there. He is a tremendous peasant fellow. His muscles bulge. His members are large, cumbrous, powerful, those of a toiler, of a great struggler. On his face are the passing marks of the death agony, the last contortions of pain passing in the peace of unconsciousness...
Perhaps, never before in Harvard rowing, have the crews had such a splendid start. The mild weather this Fall has enabled the work to be continued much later than in previous years. After the Christmas vacation the men will be given a rest until after the mid-year examinations when work will begin again on the machines and in the tank. It is hoped in this way to prevent the "staleness" which is so apt to creep into crew routine...
Senator Johnson's campaign pronouncements have been noticeably mild and have had more the ring of astute politics than of reforming zeal. It is significant, perhaps, that Mr. Hitchcock has replaced Senator Borah and that the latter is almost partial to Coolidge. Certainly there is nothing very inspiring in more denunciation of the League of Nations and a lukewarm domestic policy...