Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...65th Congress in 1917 set forth a modest proposal for prohibiting the manufacture, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes. The proposal was subsequently adopted as a part of the U. S. Constitution. But it is doubtful whether members of the 65th Congress would have recognized their proposal as explained last week by Hudson Maxim before the Free Thinkers Society of New York...
...college life, coupled with broad vision, has made his services on the Committee on Athletics especially valuable, as well as constituting him a most helpful adviser for the students themselves. For these reasons, his statement that he feels his job is one for a young man is much too modest. It may be possible to find a young man to teach Freshman Hygiene, but there is an extraordinary dearth of young men with executive ability, human understanding and far-sightedness, combined with the requisite technical knowledge...
...probability, Senator Copeland is as surprised as everybody else. Slogans, as slogans, are not entirely out of date, but in recent years they have tended to ward modest, conservative phrases such as "Back to normalcy". Nothing so sweeping and red-blooded as "Beer, Bonus or Bust" has assailed American ears since "Fifty-four-forty or fight,"--Out possibly, this ardent, whole-hearted sort of thing is just what America needs in the political game...
...modest violet ray, disclosing fakery...
...Committee was out of the hole, with $45,000 to boot. Besides, National Committeemen had brought about $25,000 to help towards paying off the debt. Out of debt, and $70,000 clear! Quiet, modest Cordell Hull, its Chairman, had brought the Committee...