Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...analyzing Dean Acheson's "left-slanted" script [TIME, April 4], but she does not go far enough. History shows that none of the men who have distinguished themselves on the political scene, at any time, wrote a left-slant. Nor did a single one of them have low, "modest" capitals. They wrote a right-slant, were outgoing, and interested in "the greatest good for the greatest number." The left-slanter is, primarily, concerned with the "choice...
Francisco Franco, Dictator of Spain, observing the tenth anniversary of his Civil War, had words of modest reassurance for his followers: "You must stick closely together, confident that he who led you so many times to victory is wholly conscious of his duty and will never desert his post of honor...
Died. Willard Henry Dow, 52, president (since 1930) of gigantic Dow Chemical Co. (600 products); in a private airplane crash; near London, Ont. From a modest beginning by Dow's father in 1897, Dow Chemical became the largest producer of magnesium (mined from sea water) in World War II, did a $170 million business last year in industrial and agricultural chemicals, plastics, pharmaceuticals and magnesium...
...script. "It is interesting," she pointed out, "that both General Marshall and Dean Acheson write a firm, left-slanted writing. Both are reserved men, clear, swift thinkers, and strong willed . . . Dean Acheson has the added gift of intuition, shown in his quickly written, disconnected writing ... Low capitals indicate a modest man . . . he is also extremely literary. This is a cultured writing in the finest sense of the word...
People are always asking greying Microbiologist Selman Abraham Waksman, 60, how he discovered the wonder drug streptomycin in 1943. Modest Dr. Waksman (rhymes with phlox-man) has a stock answer which makes it sound pretty simple. He merely examined about 10,000 cultures, he explains. Only 1,000 would kill bacteria in preliminary tests; only 100 looked promising in later tests; only ten were isolated and described; one of the ten proved to be streptomycin. It just happened that streptomycin was the first effective drug that doctors had ever found to fight tuberculosis...