Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Finally, the modest, patient subject of two hours of eulogizing, John Frank Stevens of Manhattan, civil engineer, received in his hand the John Fritz* Gold Medal, highest award of the four U. S. national engineering societies?civil, mechanical, electrical, mining-and-metallurgical? for specific achievement in the profession...
...week gave a concert in Carnegie Hall, Manhattan, sang songs old and new. Though the audience did not, like that former one, rise to its feet shouting "Tibbett! Tibbett!" through the confusion of the darkened theatre, it forced him, nevertheless, to deliver seven encores. Again Tibbett acquitted himself with modest confidence...
...never recommend a man to go into Egyptian archaeology unless he has first, a university education behind him with a good scholarship record, and second, a private income sufficient for a modest living. In the Egyptian field the training requires a great deal of time and a man's material progress is slow. A man has to make his own place by developing some special branch of research in which he excels every one else. The number of expeditions is small and the places...
...Author. Pierre Custot, modest Frenchman, offers Sturly, not to scientists, not to novel-readers, but "to those who like to meditate beside the sea." He has spent years voyaging in strange waters, years pondering fish in books, tanks and hotel bedrooms as well as in their less accessible homes. For reproducing an English Sturly in the finest nuances of submarine color and motion, Author Custot owes thanks to Translator Richard Aldington...
Years passed without significant event, although it is true that he had won a modest recognition from his party (Social Democratic) and had several times taken part in the international councils of the world's Socialists. On his foreign comrades, Ebert seemed to have made no impression. In 1912, he was elected a member of the Reichstag. There, also, Ebert was undistinguished. He, like all his brethren, was bitterly opposed to militarism and, like them, he supported the Kaiser in what many Germans believed-and many still believe- to be a war of self-defense. Even in 1917, when...