Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was more early-season pennant talk in the American League where the Yankees, paced by Henrich, had rolled up a solid six-game lead. At 33, modest, Ohio-born Tommy Henrich was having a new experience; he was the Yankees' big wheel. The great Joe DiMaggio had held that role for nine years, but a bone spur put him out of action before the season opened (TIME, April...
Preceded by a modest automobile escort, it came at last down streets reverberating with banzais. At one place the crowd made a quick spontaneous rush from the curb, almost surrounding the imperial car. Nodding happily to them and waving his shapeless grey hat with the flourish of an old campaigner, Hirohito looked more like a successful and extroverted political leader than the scared sovereign...
...indignation of German pedants and specialists. "People were never thoroughly contented with me," Goethe confided in his last years to Johann Peter Eckermann, the youth who was to become his Boswell. "[They] always wished me otherwise than it has pleased God to make me ... People expected from me some modest expression, humbly setting forth the total unworthiness of my person and my work ... I believed in God and in Nature, and in the triumph of good over evil; but this was not enough for pious souls: I was also required to believe other points, which were opposed to the feeling...
...Window (RKO Radio) gives a modest but impressive view of how well Hollywood can do, if it tries, on a grade B budget (under $750,000). One of the last jobs done for RKO by Executive Producer Dore Schary before he joined MGM, it combines a neat story by Cornell Woolrich, competent playing by twelve-year-old Bobby Driscoll and four relatively unknown actors, and some expert camera work in the brownstone jungles of Manhattan's East Side tenements. Smoothly mortised and joined by Director Ted Tetzlaff and Producer Frederic Ullman Jr., The Window emerges as a fast little...
Although he is modest about it, Berlin is well qualified in Russian studies. He was born in the Baltic city of Riga in 1909 and learned the language there. He moved to England as a boy and went to college at Oxford, where he later became a member of the faculty. He returned to Russia in 1945, however, for a year as First Secretary at the British Embassy in Moscow. Before taking the Russian post, he was with the Ministry of Information in New York from 1941-42 and then moved to the Embassy in Washington as First Secretary...