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Word: modestly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was a new face under a baseball cap, too: one Steve Sebo, a modest man who readily admits adopting the Michigan-Harvard system from his predecessor, Davey Nelson...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: Valpey, Sebo Drill Football Team in Briggs Cage | 3/15/1949 | See Source »

...Guide is a modest moneymaker, but the Youngs look forward to the day when the paper will no longer be needed. Says T. W., who is president of the Negro Newspaper Publishers Association: "If the daily newspapers . . . adequately reported [Negro news] and crusaded against all injustices . . . they would take away the . . . reason why Negro newspapers exist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Three in a Row | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

There were some Georgians who still insisted that Hummon might prove to be a better governor than his father before him. It was an extremely modest and narrow ambition, but no one yet knew whether Hummon aspired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Hummon's Own Assembly | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

...Good Oar. The scion of a modest Gooderham inheritance was sent to a primary boarding school in Pomfret, Conn., then to Groton, which left another mark: he learned that he was of the elite, chosen and trained to serve, and to solve problems. With the notion of getting closer to the world, young Dean undertook a romantic, singlehanded journey into the Canadian north woods as cook and handyman with a surveying gang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: The Man from Middletown | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

Read the Gossips. He began life anew amid the lush estates of Beverly Hills, Hollywood, Brentwood and Bel Air. He bought a shiny new Lincoln and a Cadillac convertible to make himself inconspicuous while working, settled down in a modest apartment to keep himself inconspicuous off the job. He studied the movements of his prey by reading society pages, travel news, and Hollywood gossip columns. He soon had a king's ransom in loot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Good Life | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

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