Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mirror also pulled a neat trick in the matter of price. A recent price rise to 7? has cut street sales of other papers. The Mirror outmaneuvered rival papers by sneaking into the field (with a modest 100,000 circulation guarantee) at a nickel...
...memorial to the 639 Harvard men who lost their lives in World War II. Its report calls for the installation of a plaque in Memorial Church at an expense of 65 or 70,000 dollars. In answer to the objections of inadequacy, the Committee intimates in effect that its modest goal would at least avoid the five year struggle for funds which preceded the building of Memorial Church. Out of that struggle, however, came a durable memorial which combines the functional and inspirational to the greatest possible degree. The current proposal does not stand comparison to the devotion which created...
...been vindicated in spite of the criticism which delayed it, and few would deny that it is a fitting tribute with a lasting meaning. The prospect of repeating such an ordeal, however, seems to dissuade the Saltonstall Committee from undertaking a comparable task, and it will place a decidedly modest proposal before the Associated Harvard Clubs on Friday. To realize a more adequate tribute would require years and determination. But that is the way Harvard gets a vital memorial...
John's wife was a charter member of the W.C.T.U., and a leader in the First Baptist Church of Edgefield. On the small farm which John bought to supplement his modest earnings as an attorney, they brought up three sons and three daughters. James Strom Thurmond was the next to eldest...
...only one who wasn't fretting last week was modest Dorothy Dobson. She had always dreamed of being a famous singer-and this was fame of a sort. She only wished her three notes had been better. "They were," said she, "the tiniest bit sharp...