Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Conspicuous, during the last fortnight, have been two minor lawn tennis tournaments in England, wherein the leading amateur women racquet-wielders of the world were thoroughly trounced by a modest 22-year-old, Helen Wills. In the North London finals, she defeated Elizabeth Ryan (U. S. ranking No. 2), 6-2, 6-2. In the Kent semifinals, Miss Wills ran burly Mrs. Molla Bjurstedt Mailory (U. S. ranking No. 1) around the court for only 23 minutes, disposing of her, 6-0, 6-1. Next day, that skilled tactician and Wimbledon champion, Mrs. L. A. Godfree (the onetime Kitty McKane...
...section conducted by Conductor Kennedy or Conductor Hendrix, the section called "first" only for convenience, perhaps, but invariably attended at one end of the run or other by George Joseph Warner, a gentleman of 63 who looks, in his bat tie and wing collar, precisely like a modest bank president seen through brown-smoked glasses. George Joseph Warner is the road's crack and senior porter. His section is always the "first...
...will signify in many cases that benign tutors have been careful in tending to the matter and that there will be no radical change, for one should in theory be able to derive as much information from Aristotie when the temperature is at 90 as when it records a modest 50. The mind is what one makes it--if one is so minded...
Should his critics read "The Church Nobody Knows" they would find Bruce Barton making the following points in his own prosaic but clear and modest way about those traditional strangers, Business and the Church...
Professor Gay spoke of President Eliot's belief from the very outset in the speedy success of the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. Mr. Eliot was confident that by the end of the first five-year period, avowedly experimental, for which a modest financial provision had been made, the new School would have so demonstrated its usefulness that its support would be ensured. The newly appointed dean insisted that it would take at least fifteen years to come to anything like maturity, measured by both qualitative and quantitative tests. That cautious prediction has been abundantly fulfilled...