Word: modestic
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...century. Wrote Phelps of one celestial interlude: "We stopped before a small and quiet house built of curiously inlaid woods...So exquisite was the carving and coloring, that on a larger scale the effect might have interfered with the solidity of the building, but so modest were the proportions of this charming house, that its dignity was only enhanced by its delicacy ... There were flowers--not too many; birds; and I noticed a fine dog sunning himself upon the steps." There was dog, but there was very little God. The vision, like the age itself, honored human progress: it assumed...
...Swiss Confederation made mistakes during World War II like many other countries. We openly talk about them here, and we even welcome discussion from abroad on the subject. Foreign views normally broaden the narrow Swiss mind, if their authors are of some historical competence. Sad, but this modest condition already excludes people like Senator Alfonse D'Amato, whose revelations were not news to us; the average Swiss college student studied this situation years ago. MARTIN ENDER Staretschwil, Switzerland...
...shape or form. It really changed my life. All this attention - I thought of myself as doing something that I thought was important that might be interesting to a particular marginal group. It was really astonishing to me that something like women's history, sort of a modest enterprise, would make a difference in our definition of history in general...
...richest American, but even he can complain that $15 billion ain't what it used to be. According to The Wealthy 100: A Ranking of the Richest Americans, Past and Present, by Michael Klepper and Robert Gunther, Gates ranks a mere 31st. He is ahead of the modest Mark Hopkins, one of the powers who built the Central Pacific Railroad, just behind meat-packer Philip Armour, and way, way behind John D. Rockefeller at No. 1. Gates doesn't figure to threaten old John D. The authors determined the standings by looking at the tycoons' fortunes in relation...
...Disney, Ovitz's expensively renovated offices stand empty. His Gulfstream III jet, which he sold to the company when he went to work there, is now happily occupied by ABC president Bob Iger. Apparently Ovitz has replaced it with a more modest Westwind...