Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nineteen-year-old Daily News, 1,738,667 daily and 3,233,407 Sunday readers, has the biggest circulation in the U. S. In a modest way, Publisher Thomason has also emulated this kind of success. In four years, the Times's circulation has grown from 152,813 to 349,855, passing Hearst's morning Herald & Examiner and lacking about 80,000 to equal Hearst's evening American and Colonel Frank Knox's evening News. The Tribune, with a daily circulation of over 825,000, remains Chicago's biggest paper...
...hole in the middle which resembles a large lifesaver the kind you eat. Although his colleagues have not yet confirmed his suspicion, spinachseed is certain that the fossil is that of the left nostril of a metamorphic ape. He has already named the ape Spinachanthropus in honor of its modest discoverer...
After the ceremony, Countess Schuschnigg told friends that the days of toasts were over. She and her husband, she said, were poor. To save a few marks, she had moved her trunks and household chattels in a taxi to their new, modest, downtown apartment. When she would be joined there by her husband, only the Gestapo knew...
...often makes his pupils lay off training in March if he thinks they are getting in top form too soon. He permits his jumpers to jump only once a week, spend the rest of their time doing gymnastics to develop muscles and low hurdles to perfect their stride. But modest Dean Cromwell insists his success is due to the Grade A material he gets from Southern California high schools, where 6-ft. high jumps and 9.8 hundreds are the rule rather than the exception...
...Artists Corporation, owned by retired Stars Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charles Chaplin and Producers Samuel Goldwyn and Alexander Korda. A private corporation, United Artists keeps its business largely to itself, occasionally gloats in the trade press over large but unrevealed profits. Month ago the five owners met, split a modest melon...