Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mariane and Dorine, Miss Grew and Miss Thayer, were excellent complements, the one an over modest, timid little girl with a tendency to dramatic action and the other keen of wit and ready to plan common-sense solutions...
Cardinal Logue, Primate of Ireland, in his Lenten pastoral, threatened to refuse holy communion to women not modestly dressed. "The tradition that Irish women are modest must be maintained...
Senator Samuel M. Ralston of Indiana received a bit of modest commendation from Tom Taggart, Democratic boss of his state...
Last week, Lieutenant John A. Macready tried for a second time to beat Lecointe. He failed-reaching the modest elevation of 34,983 feet. His altimeter recorded 41,000 feet but the altimeter is not an absolute instrument to show height. It measures how much lighter the air is at heights than it is at ground level. On a cold day the air is heavier at ground level, hence the error. And it certainly was cold the day of the flight-the thermometer failed at 70° below zero Fahrenheit, at some 30,000 feet. Macready went still higher...
...Cardinal requests that his jubilee be essentially modest and pious...