Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about 80 miles) in length and every foot of it is over 12,000 feet above the sea. Its terminus, the ancient mining town of Cerro de Pasco, is 14,300 feet above the sea. Quite a way up in the air-far above the Moffat road's modest 11,600 feet-but let us consider the Central of Peru, which was- and probably still is-the highest standard-gauge railroad in the world...
...modest chapters in conclusion" describe and illustrate the Jones technique?the classic body-turn, sharply cocked left eye, straight left arm, opposed wrists in putting, etc.?and reiterate the central Jones doctrine: "Play against...
After a contribution from a man of Mr. Waddy's evident character, no one, truly modest though he may be, should for that reason refrain from addressing an open letter to TIME. If you wish, you may print this one, of course...
...delegates sent congratulations to Mrs. Evangeline A. Lindbergh, modest mother, high-school teacher in Detroit...
...Modest Emperor. The deposed heir to the vanished Manchu Empire of China, a modest youth, Henry P'u-Yi (TIME, March 16, 1925) was interviewed last week for the first time in many months, at his refuge-residence in the Japanese quarter of Tientsin. Said...