Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Directors: Charles Lanier Lawrance, president of the Wright Aeronautical Corp., designer of the Wright Whirlwind motor, winner of the Collier Trophy (TIME, Feb. 13), modest sportsman...
...need of subdividing his estate for homesites. Mr. Alling's across-the-road neighbor, one Benjamin Franklin Affleck, heard of this and telegraphed: "Such concentration of housing and population is entirely contrary to the general scheme of things in that part of Lake Forest. . . . We left Winnetka [modest Chicago suburb regarded by some as a stepping-stone to Lake Forest, by others as a model community] because of numerous small houses built in our neighborhood...
Approximately 9,000,000 Chinese are facing starvation in Shantung province (TIME, Jan. 23 et seq.) and U. S. citizens are being besought for the comparatively modest contribution of $10,000,000 by the National Committee for China Famine Relief. Last week the N. C. C. F. R. chose as its Chairman the Rev. Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, writer of daily homilies for the New York Herald Tribune, and president of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America...
...sure enough, dashing through the sleepy streets, Engine No. 9 snorted up to No. 2009 Massachusetts Avenue, a modest little French-style mansion of Indiana limestone, with festive lights. There, just as on another night last January (TIME, Jan. 16), stood a pink-cheeked, slightly rotund little man with a perky mustache and amusing eyes...
George Huntington Hartford, a "down-easter" born at Augusta, Me., went to Manhattan before the Civil War and there operated a modest hide and leather business from his store on Vesey street. A neighboring store keeper, one Gilman from Bridgeport, Conn., was in the spice and tea business, and in 1859 the first Hartford went to work for Gilman as store manager. Gilman soon withdrew from the business. He had a peculiarity that doubtless was most trying to Hartford. He feared death so terribly that he would endure near him no mirrors in which he might note the shriveling...