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...Alessandro announced last month that the building will undergo a modest $1.1 million fix-up over the next two years, including a paint job and replacement of windows that do not open...
...Foster says Sen is too modest in describing the stature he has in India...
...courtroom odyssey make him a role model for the oppressed everywhere? Averell is modest about his accomplishments...
...street to their social clubs, which offered some of the best cuisine in Cambridge. At the same time, public transportation was reaching new areas of the city. Boston and Cambridge were united by a modern and efficient trolley system, and soon it was difficult to convince students of modest means that they should live in Harvard's bedraggled dorms when the prospect of cheaper rooms off-campus presented itself...
...undergraduates.As his successor Neil L. Rudenstine was to do in Allston half a century later, Lowell set to secretly buying plots of land surrounding the University. The territory between Mt. Auburn Street and the Charles River was, in Lowell's day, an unpropitious site, home to a few modest houses, a series of wharves and coalhouses, a power plant and a malodorous bank of mudflats...