Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Burk is modest. Last week, when he was told of the award, his already pink cheeks turned the color of the apples on his dad's farm, and he said: "Alice Marble should have got it." But the 600 exathletes, sportswriters and promoters polled by the A. A. U. liked Joe best, gave second place to Charles ("Chuck") Fenske, Wisconsin miler, and third place to Tennist Marble. Their reasons for picking...
...unprecedented successes in rowing have not spoiled his modest, unassuming, gentlemanly character. . . . His example to the youth of America ... of high sportsmanship, indomitable perseverance, self-discipline and an ability to take victory without conceit...
...little modest specification would sometimes help Aikman's survey, for though the reader may learn from him that foreign investment in Argentina is $4,432,000,000, the reader must turn to Miss Carr's Primer for names of U. S. corporations involved (Du Pont and Elizabeth Arden are two). Pertinent and electrifying are the bits of "U. S. Colonial" chitchat that Reporter Aikman picked up over highballs in South American capitals. Samples...
...Congressional realists this modest proposal was, putting it kindly, sheer romance. They heard but they did not harken to the President's argument: that an emergency pay-as-you-go defense tax would further slash his deficit...
...undergraduates came to know John D. Merrill. More's the pity. Now that he's gone it's hard to think of a man who typifies so well the true Yankee, Harvard gentleman. Wise, modest, matter-of-fact, for a half century he wrote politics for New England in the Boston Globe, and for almost as long he edited the Harvard Alumni Bulletin...