Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dead. I am a boilermaker's helper at Sun Oil in Marcus Hook, Pa. I like it ... and I seem to have some talent for it. I've lost some fat around the waist and between the ears. And I'm a little proud of the modest bit I'm doing in our war effort...
...past dark, paused only for the law which forbade him to sit on Sundays. Sometimes he started again at 12:05 a.m. Monday. He examined 6,000 witnesses, heard 20,000,000 words of testimony, indicted 500 men & women. Of those brought to trial, 94% have been convicted. Says modest Judge Ferguson: "My old Dad used to say, 'Even a blind hog will find an occasional acorn if he just keeps his nose down...
...manufacturers, merchants or housewives have yet heard of Masslinn. Last week its proud maker, Johnson & Johnson (surgical dressings), explained why: the wonder baby had literally been snatched from the cradle and hastened off to war. Eighteen months ago it made a modest debut in Chux, a disposable diaper; before it could appear in sheets, window draperies, table cloths, wall paper, wire insulation, Masslinn was abruptly withdrawn from the market and production (now running about 800,000 yards per month) converted totally to Army & Navy needs...
...colleges and little theaters, i.e., easily cast and staged. Commission for the libretto went to his close friend Paul Horgan, poet, novelist, artist, author of the Harper prize novel, The Fault of Angels, other fiction about the Southwest. The resulting A Tree on the Plains is a musically modest opera, occasionally rising to heights of beauty, mainly important as a signpost that opera is turning from an exotic plant into a wayside flower, part of the American scene...
...with the bottle nose was modest: the eyes of the people in that winter of 1933-34 were on him-General Hugh S. Johnson, commander in chief of NRA. The glory, was 400 codes signed, 20,000.000 of the country's workers covered, child labor on the way out, 2,785,000 people back at work and $3,000,000,000 added to the nation's payroll (he claimed), torchlight parades, blaring radios, speeches in the streets, everybody promising: "We Do Our Part." The U.S. had broken out of its long depression paralysis...