Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Promising less, the Second Five-Year Plan visualized more modest gains: 178 new coal mines, 107 rolling mills, 93 oil cracking plants, 15 cotton mills, 21 shoe factories, eleven silk mills, along with a big extension of rolling stock, locomotives, tractors, power plants. Although it called for an 18.5% increase in consumer goods, ration cards were not abolished until 1935. Production of automobiles and trucks, in a country which has only 600,000, climbed slowly from 49,750 in 1933, to 199,315 in 1937. Production of shoes, in a country which produces one pair a year per person, declined...
...become a large scale piece of advertising, for prestige and money. . . . Commencements at the older universities are competitive as to spectacular features, speakers who will secure the headlines. and finally in the result of it all, the announcement of funds. ... If these college commencements were reduced to their former modest simplicity, if representatives of great financial houses and industries were to play a lesser role, the annual increment would probably fall...
...intelligent use of wealth-had given it a national reputation, national responsibilities. Liberal Ladies. For years after Manhattan's huge Armory Show of Post-Impressionism in 1913 the "modern art" controversy remained, to the public at large, barbaric and obscure. During those years two rich and modest women, Nelson Rockefeller's mother and her friend, the late Lillie Plummer Bliss, quietly bought whatever modern works they enjoyed, quietly deplored the fact that the art of living men received little or no institutional support in Manhattan. In the late spring of 1929 they and one or two other liberal...
...Home. In foreign capitals Litvinoff rode around in a shiny limousine with a tiny red flag attached, stayed at luxurious hotels, ate fine foods, drank good wines, dressed like the traditional diplomat. At home he made no such concessions to bourgeois tastes. He lived in a modest flat with his English-born wife and two handsome children. But Ivy Low Litvinoff, the Soviets' No. 1 hostess, conducted the only Moscow salon and translated novels and plays in her spare time. Fun-loving, witty, bohemian, she once engaged Novelist Theodore Dreiser in a conversation on his specialty, sexual theory...
Everyone applauded. Then the Conference resumed its work, which it had agreed to speed up. The delegates had voted themselves a modest, Methodist $4 per day expense money, but even that, they discovered, would exhaust their Conference treasury by May 10. Accordingly, they resolved to finish by then. Week's work...