Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were more than offset by $1.3 billion extra paid out for veterans' benefits, $800 million extra needed to bolster sagging farm prices. Another big item was the unexpectedly high burden of underwriting the mortgage market for veterans and rental housing projects. It had been budgeted at a modest $200 million; it was costing a whopping $1.3 billion-an increase...
Georgia O'Keeffe, a plain-spoken lady who looks as severe as her own paintings, played a modest part in the festivities. She stood up when called upon and said: ''This is a gift from Stieglitz. It is for the students of this university. I hope you will go and look at these paintings more than once...
With this money (and more still to come), Rutgers and Waksman are planning to build an Institute of Microbiology. Quiet, modest Dr. Waksman will enjoy the new equipment and the more spacious laboratories. For himself he asks little. By taking advantage of the unusually liberal Rutgers policy in such financial matters, he might have claimed all the proceeds of his discovery and become a millionaire. But he turned over his royalty rights to the Rutgers Research and Endowment Foundation with the mild observation: "Rutgers won't let me starve...
...Says modest Dr. Waksman: "I get students from all over the world, and sometimes I learn more from the student than he learns from me." Such a student came to Waksman in 1924 to work for his Ph.D.: a young (23) Frenchman named René Jules Dubos. Waksman turned Dubos loose on the activities of microbes in reducing plant fibers to humus...
Select Club. Dr. Waksman lives in the same modest six-room house that he has lived in for 25 years. He manages to make clothes look shapeless and still wears high-laced black shoes. His only son, Byron Halsted Waksman (30, and an M.D.), is on the staff of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Dr. Waksman and his wife often go to concerts in New York (Mrs. Waksman likes the more serious works; he likes "musical music...