Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...husband and I were vacationing in the East, and on the strength of having sold her four cartoon suggestions (one: "Now, please bear in mind that I am not Ingrid Bergman"-see cut), we asked her to meet us for cocktails . . . We found her to be shy, modest, thoroughly affable, and reminiscent of her women . . . When we asked her what she'd like to drink, she said: "A glass of iced tea. Hard liquor makes...
...business education is the notion that "one must learn to do by doing." Years ago in 1908, when the School first opened, its leaders decided to minimize the study of facts, rules, and routines, and that's the way things have stayed ever since. Meanwhile, what started as a modest, small-scale "problem method of instruction" has evolved through the years into the School's famous "case system...
When the Roman Catholic Church in Czechoslovakia finally bowed to state control (TIME, Nov. 14), the Czech Episcopate managed to make one modest reservation: it inserted a clause in the loyalty oath to the government, which all priests would henceforth have to take, implying that they would not follow orders "contrary to the laws of God or human rights...
...walled campus office, which a battery of clerks outside take pleasure in calling "God's Office." The only thing he had consented to do was to write a report entitled The State of the University ("Down the Hill with Hutchins," he calls it), a faithful and not particularly modest account of his first brilliant and stormy 20 years...
...general have risen only 60%. Actually, a free market would not change the price unless the U.S. raised its official price also, because the Treasury is required by law to keep gold at $35 an ounce. While a gold boost would give Britain and other U.S. allies a modest profit on their gold holdings, the greatest beneficiary might be Russia, probably the world's biggest gold producer. The biggest reason of all for not boosting the price of gold at this time was simply that such a move would nullify the recent currency devaluations abroad...