Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...order to improve the bill's chances; $75,000,000 of this amount was set aside for cotton to bring the South into line, and a bitter fight raged. The North and East turned on the bill calling it rank subsidy. Congressman Tincher (who had a more modest $100,000,000 plan) fiercely attacked the Haugen bill, and certain Southerners denounced it as unworkable. Sound and fury swelled unabated...
...until 1913-that every year the Vice President gave a party for Congress. Quite a reception it was, the invited including 96 Senators, 435 Congressmen, Cabinet members and Justices of the Supreme Court, Army and Navy officers of high degree, a few hundred diplomats-a crush. But the modest Marshalls and the retiring Coolidges gave up the demonstration. This year the Daweses, with a large house and plenty of money, decided to resume it. In fact it is to take place very soon...
Your April 26 number [TIME, April 26, p. 9] razzes me amiably for attributed idiotic remarks about the U. S. Government. The misquotation started in the properly esteemed Baltimore Sun, and was the first paragraph of a modest and orthodox exhortation to civic duties, which as actually spoken ran thus: "Democratic representative government, such as we have in the U. S., is the most inefficient type of government in the world"; (re executive) "our forefathers, dreading Star Chamber methods, created an executive with too little power and too short a term of office to oppress the people"?100% grammar...
...subject. Yet there is a mild fascination in this reaction of an eminent political lady to the conduct of political men, eminent and extremely otherwise. Why should the politician, handshaker though he is in some circumstances, habitually dive for a fight when he could be assured of modest winnings by gentler means? Mrs. Blair believes that explanations begin at home; that the housewife has long acted by program, unhampered in her kingdom of accomplishment, while man as warrior, bread winner, or political warder has always faced competition, and, being long habituated, now creates that competition where it is found lacking...
Goiter Germ? Last week a modest man spoke diffidently before the Toledo, Ohio, Academy of Medicine. He was Dr. Andre Crotti of Columbus, Ohio, who cautiously explained that after twelve years' research, he had isolated a minute organism constantly found in non-toxic goiter. He had never seen anything like it before; no one had ever described it; injected into a dog it had caused goiter. Lacking experimental facilities, he suggested that others carry on his research; perhaps he had found a cause of goiter other than the well-known lack of iodine...