Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When one wants to remember a dictator in the pure classical meaning of the term," spouted Dictator Mussolini, "one cites Sulla. Well, Sulla seems to us a modest amateur compared to Delano Roosevelt...
Last month in Scotch Plains, N.J., a shoestring firm called Flanders Hall published a 115-page book called The 100 Families that Rule the Empire. Purportedly, it exposed the planet's best-known interlocking directorate-the British upper classes. Inadvertently, it exposed another, more modest, but significant...
...China, Manuel Fox will be a member of the United States Dollar-Chinese Yuan Stabilization Board. Already there, or on the way, are his fellow-members, modest, capable Chairman K. P. Chen and Britain's Cyril Rogers. The board will study all phases of Chinese economy-taxes, earning power, transportation, etc. But its big job will be to manage China's $90,000,000 Stabilization Fund, try to stop inflation in unoccupied China (where $1.70 in Chinese money buys only one pound of rice...
...Modest Mr. Lovett would rather have the credit go to such professional airmen as Major General Henry H. Arnold (Deputy Chief of Staff), Lieut. General Delos Emmons (commander of the General Headquarters Air Force, who has long fought for more bomber-power) and Major General George H. Brett (Chief of Air Corps, who was not so foresighted). They and their new civilian boss mutually respect each other, get along very well...
Quinquela Martín, a modest man of 50, has never married. Says...