Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Advocate. But the best way to gain respect for such a magazine is for the editors to command it. Closer rapport between its editors and the instructors of composition courses, even English A, might help in acquiring the best material in college; often young authors are too modest or diffident to submit their work voluntarily. Surely there is more literary gold in Harvard than is being mined
...William Meuser and a committee from the Steuben Society addressed Mr. LaFollette, promising him the support of six million U. S. citizens of German blood. Said Mr. Meuser: "The notification which we convey to you is the expression of the mature judgment of 90% of the most loyal, modest and conservative element in the American complex, which recognizes in you the shining qualities of conservative statesmanship and unbending devotion to the principles of constitutional government." Answered Mr. LaFollette : "From my heart I thank you for your stirring message and welcome the support you pledge. . . .We are hearing much in this...
Most of the credit goes to Mr. Ochs. He is a very modest man who keeps himself far in the background, yet he is the power which has made the Times go round. "I am no genius," he explains. "All one needs is common business sense, common editorial sense, and a common sense of responsibility." But anyone who glances at a tabloid career of the man whose greatest achievement is the building of the Times can hardly avoid raising a skeptical eyebrow and asking "No genius...
...real trouble has been that the U. S. Government has, under the specious pretext of a "franchise tax," confiscated the earnings of Reserve Banks over dividends at a modest return to surplus account. The Reserve Banks should be allowed to accumulate large surpluses, so that, in just such times as the present, they could pay dividends out of surplus for years if necessary...
...inexorable rule of the Army, fit as he is, he must retire on Sept. 13, at the age limit of 64. No more the khaki and the Sam Brown belt. Dressed like plain John Citizen, the baker, the butcher, the politician and the banker, he will go his way modest ly in mufti. Ofttimes, doubtless, he will yearn for his military life, its punctilio and its elan. But the rule of the Army is inexorable, and John Jo seph Pershing likes it for its unyieldingness...