Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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State law specifically lists idiocy and social disease as the only legal causes, requires a 30-day notice of hearings to interested parties. Since Beloit's notably modest entrance requirements are an I. Q. of better than 50 and absence of venereal disease, and since, according to Mrs. McCarthy, inadequate notice was often given, she maintained the sterilizations were doubly illegal...
...great heat," seems largely facile and sentimental now, it had a quality, incommunicable to present ears, which made the Irish take it passionately to their hearts, and so furthered the cause of Nationalism that was his one enduring conviction. For this. Strong concludes, Tom Moore deserves "his modest but permanent cottage on Parnassus...
Hastily Editor Daigh selected Free-lancer Frederic Mortimer Delano (fourth cousin to the President), 40, to help shape up Photo-Facts. A metropolitan "feeler number" in August was so successful Publisher Fawcett put on newsstands this week 175,000 copies of the first regular Photo-Facts issue, a modest figure in contrast to Fawcett's bestseller, True Confessions, which has reached 1,100,000 a month...
...been connected with brain testing (or, more technically, electro-encephalogram work) for more than three years at the Medical School. She did her undergraduate testing here in a modest emporium deep in the cellar of the Hygiene Building, an emperium which formerly served as a coal...
...Washington suburb of Chevy Chase, the modest neighborhood of Barnaby is inhabited by citizens whose salaries mostly range from $5,000 to $10,000 a year. Nonetheless, the substantial red-brick house at 3122 Tennyson N. W., home of R.F.C. Counsel Claude E. Hamilton Jr., with its green shuttered windows and cement walk much like its neighbors, was one evening last week the scene of history in the making. A Diamond Taxi drove up to 3122 Tennyson, and stopped. Out of the taxi stepped Lawyer Hamilton and Associate Justice Hugo LaFayette Black of the U. S. Supreme Court. With...