Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...early age, Fritz went to a public school in Heidelberg and received there a modest education which he supplemented by voluntary attendance in some of the University's lecture rooms that were open to the general public. At the age of 15, he was apprenticed to a saddlemaker and, while thus employed in learning a trade, joined an organization of youths known as the Young Socialists. This was perhaps the first step of any importance in his life...
...Cecil Rhodes established his endowment to enable a select group of American young men to study at Oxford, he set up a greater claim to the gratitude of posterity than he had done by all his brilliant achievement as an empire builder in South Africa: That endowment was a modest beginning. It had nothing of the popular glamor of a Cape to Cairo project, but it was of great significance to the future progress of the world...
...Central Union Trust, $5,136,647 for the National Bank of Commerce, $4,954,684 for the Chase National, $4,019,071 for the Equitable Trust and $3,711,366 for the Guaranty Trust. Yet all of the above named institutions have a capitalization larger than the modest $10,000,000 of the First National while none can equal its $66,060,058 of surplus and undivided profits. Consequently, the First National's dividend payments aggregating $5,500,000 were exceeded only by the National City's at $6,400,000; yet the former earned...
...dress is cream colored, her coif, built up like a Chestertonian paragraph, is starred with pearls, garnished with plumes of red and grey; from her right arm depends a gauzy scarf. Walpole wrote of her: "She effaces all without being a beauty, but her youthful figure, lively modesty and modest familiarity make her a prodigy." The portrait was painted at the time of her wedding. Seven years later, she sat to Gainsborough, and his portrait of her shows a woman whose face had taken on a pensive cast and her body a buxom rotundity-not quite so buxom...
...Moscow, that his health had forced him at the last moment to cancel his trip to the Caucasus, that he was busy on some literary work, his health meantime much improved. The Commissar said that the War Lord was not in prison, but living quietly in a modest apartment in Moscow and would go south in a few days...