Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Indian despised the great machinery of civilization, considering it a defacement of nature. He mourned equally for his friend and his enemy, and until he had been cheated by the English, taught to use whiskey, and driven from his hunting ground, he showed that he was a firm and modest friend. The men of our modern civilization do not surpass him in physical endurance, manhood, nor in depth of philosophy...
Friedrich Althoff, "Absent through illness, but expressly represented today by Professor Struve, director of the Prussian universities; modest, austere, untiring, sagacious, resolute, the most potent personage in German higher education; the promoter of the exchange of professors between German and American universities...
...lovers in Boston and vicinity have started an organization at the Bijou Theatre for the performance throughout the winter of good light operas. The scheme is being backed by Prof. Beale, Dr. Jaggar and many graduates and officers of the University. At first everything must be run on a modest scale, but it is not too much to say that the troupe already consists of a good orchestra and an adequate chorus and of solo voices for the leading roles of distinct vocal and dramatic ability. So far "Iolanthe," "II Trovatore" and "Fra Diavolo" have been given in a most...
Here grateful pride will ever renew The name of the patriot, modest and true, Whose face looks down from yon panelled wall But whose life is his best memorial...
...taken from the Phillips Brooks House shows a gathering of men who have a manly simplicity of purpose and a real desire to serve God; that from Appleton Chapel shows an assemblage of men and women who are come together to hear truth and who have a modest shrinking from all self-expression; that from the Wadsworth House, shows the personal revelation of young men to the preacher. Harvard men have not only a mighty work before them, but they have a prospect of a mighty harvest...