Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bishop of Derry, Ireland: "Dress [of young girls], which even outdoors is far from modest, in society and at balls and dances is positively immodest, suggestive and an open incentive to passion...
This particular proposal is a modest one but it will serve very well as an entering wedge into the citadel of precedent and inertia. As the Lantern says, "If the legislature does create a state board of entrance this session it will be showing the way to other states. The thing is bound to come and it is only a question of which state will be the first...
...sources, varying in authenticity from soberest records to the completely apocryphal. Where Napoleon fails to leave words of moment on a weighty occasion, Ludwig soliloquizes for him. These is scarcely a clue to the authority for a single passage, though occasionally Bourienne is mentioned. There is not even a modest bibliographical list...
...demand. In this materialistic view lies the secret of the fact hat with infinitely less expenditure, fewer facilities and few or seekers, real scholarship on the part of the average college graduates probably reached a higher level when Emerson, Holmes, Lowell and Felton were coming out of the modest institutions of an earlier day than it does now. Boston Transcript...
...will enable them to live decently." Second, "The essential fault of our national attitude toward education is our disposition to regard it as a commodity like any other", and that "average college graduates probably reached a higher level when Emerson, Holmes, Lowell and Felton were coming out of the modest institutions of an earlier...