Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world. Every year since he left the trade of the sea he has yachted with his brother Jacob Frederick, reputed world's biggest wool merchant, who flies a Boston Yacht Club flag. Up to his last illness he wrote sea yarns for the Atlantic Monthly, The Bellman. Modest, despite his immense knowledge and creditable learning, he had a quaint way of submitting his salty MSS. to University-bred employees, "just to have a glance over the grammar and syntax...
...Author. Poet and editor of the English quarterly, Poetry and the Play, Sydney Fowler Wright, has made a survey of contemporary poetry, and a translation of Dante's Inferno. His friends doubted his finding a publisher for Deluge. Modest, he first printed it at his own expense, and found immediate applause. Fifty three years old, he is father of nine children...
...communities contributing only one third of the costs of raising old levees to their proper level, and the land for new levees. Congressmen from States watered by the Mississippi's tributaries, which the Jones bill did not benefit, were bridling and bickering. To spur their debates to a modest conclusion, President Coolidge hinted that he might have the War Department proceed at once with anti-flood construction, using the authority of the Rivers & Harbors Act and money from the current Army appropriations...
Navy men, considering themselves guardians of all this wealth, not to mention the 400 billions heaped up in the U. S., think that a couple of hundred millions per annum for five years is a very modest sum for them to ask for new equipment. Walter Bruce Howe, ardent president of the Navy League, exclaims: "The price of one picture show from every American each year, in addition to the present Naval budget, would provide the difference nicely...
...Sixth Pan-American Conference at Havana (TIME, Jan. 16 et seq.) transferred most of its business, last week, from open and public committees to closed and secret subcommittees. With the consequent choking off of oratory, there ensued a modest modicum of progress: ¶ The text of a Pan-American Aviation Treaty was drafted. A vital clause confirms to the U. S. a right to make treaties with the Republic of Panama in such fashion as to exclude foreign air snoopers from the vicinity of the Canal. The treaty as a whole sponsors the "establishment and operation of practicable inter-American...