Word: humbler
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...American mind in action" are capable of creating a form "good, clean, elementary, logical, impelling;" was found, and illustrated in the football stadia of Yale, Leland Stanford, the University of California. "Perhaps in the distant future this form will be repeated, but reduced to a size commensurate with humbler pursuits...
...postmarital retirement; two baseball teams, the White Sox and the Giants, homing from winter play abroad; Charalambous Simopoulos, the new Greek Ambassador to the U. S., and his Secretary C. Diamantopoulos; a Manhattan cloak and suit dealer with two diamonds set in his teeth; and many souls humbler, but equally divine, from steerage to first cabin...
...contemporary writers. But the dwelling-place of renown is not always in the high places. The Sophisticati may sneer; but the reading public extends even to the scullery and the attic. A census of that mysterious body would not impossibly reveal an equal extent of the fame of humbler wielders of the pen. The laughter of Olympus is no barrier to the literary delectation of the barely literate...
Whatever the reasons, Mr. Dyar's example may prove of value to everyone. Even the college undergraduate, weary of intellectual work which seems unending, may turn to an humbler and a purer diversion in his spare time by assisting the workmen in the Yard. In which case it may be proved that the person who last spring lighted the fire in Massachusetts Hall was neither a criminal nor a lunatic, but a philanthropic psychologist of unusually far and reaching vision...
...witness to the fact that at times a journalist can be less interesting than a politician. One suspects an industrious correspondent of poring over back newspaper files and making a conscientious if uninspired summary. At times he is distressingly literal and like Mr. Washburn submits frequent homilies on the humbler virtues. He does not vapor, however, about the broodings of Fate. Some extracts...