Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...word applied to "females" should be 'Filipina"-further there are no adult Filipinas who amble about naked, particularly in the coastal towns, and my experience with these natives since 1900 is that even the so-called wild or "head hunter" tribes of the interior are quite modest...
...follow a diplomatic career beyond the point which his means justify." Thus, young, able Mr. Dulles is lost to the Department of State after serving with distinction for ten years in Europe and the Near East. Even the New York Times became editorially excited: "A Franklin could live in modest chambers and wear the plainest of clothes while representing an infant republic. But the world- like the American people-demands today that the United States be less niggardly toward its officials abroad." Within the last two years Congress has also decided that something ought to be done to lift...
...their debt as security until they earn enough to pay off the credits extended them. Though in many cases the geisha die before they are debt free, six years is the approximate period of service after which the geisha are able to retire wth sufficient savings to live in modest comfort...
...would be a hard heart that would not beat just a bit faster upon returning after a long separation to the seene of its first triumphs. For, dear readers, it was among you. and it is with modest humility that I say this, it was among you that I became great. All that I am, and I need not tell you all that I am, I owe in part at least to you, my friends through thick and thin, and the thinner the thicker...
...Some of the writers who earned no college degree wish they had. Mr. Howells, most sweet-natured and modest of men, wrote me, not long before his death: 'I would fain have been schooled, for I think it would have saved me time, and I have always thought the average of my ignorance would have been less.' Mr. Howells, working in a printing office, mastered Latin, Greek, French, and Spanish before he was twenty-one. He would hardly have been allowed to take as many languages as that in college...