Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Philadelphia men are confident they have the remedy for rheumatism. But, proper scientists, they made their announcement cautiously: "We are making only modest claims as to the value of this new serum because it is still in the experimental stage, and too small a number of cures has been effected to evaluate properly its ultimate efficacy. We do not wish to arouse undue hopes in the minds of sufferers from acute rheumatic fever with the announcement of this report, realizing that there will be many disputes in the medical profession, both pro and con, as to the real merits...
...Though modest Wilhelmina of the Netherlands is content to be styled a Queen, her realm is an Empire in all but name - an Empire three times larger in area and almost as populous as the Empire of Japan...
Charles Gates Dawes: " 'That would be assuming,' said I last week over the telephone to a news-gatherer who asked me to say something to the U. S. people for New Year. 'That would not be modest,' said I next, to a proposition to wish them a 'Happy New Year.' The persistent fellow then asked if I would wish him a Happy New Year. 'Happy New Year,' said...
...played together occasionally as lads and have both retired to chop wood for amusement are Wilhelm II, 67, and Poultney Bigelow, 71, eccentric U. S. journalist-lecturer. While the onetime Kaiser fells a modest cord or two each year in Doorn, Mr. Bigelow is indefatigable as a log and kindling splitter at his 120-year-old rustic abode, "Bigelow Homestead," in Malden-on-Hudson, N. Y. (TIME, Feb. 22). Time was when his father, John Bigelow, was U. S. Ambassador at Paris; and young Poultney is said to have paddled the first U. S. canoe that ever skimmed through...
...dark, massive, earnest man, stalwart and commanding, arrived at Brussels last week, and established himself with a few faithful retainers in cheap and modest quarters...