Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wobbling" foreign policy. He pointed out that the 80th Congress had appropriated more money for reclamation than the preceding Democratic Congress, adding invariably: "Sometimes we don't talk so good but we perform." At the end he always introduced Mrs. Dewey, who said not a word but whose modest charm was cordially approved...
...grandmother now, she still works a full schedule and keeps her regular practice. She has been president of her county medical society, and has organized a statewide series of refresher courses in obstetrics and pediatrics. But when asked why she was chosen president of the Oregon State Medical Society, modest Dr. Kent replies: "I really don't know...
This week Britain's leading plastic surgeon begins a three-month lecture tour in the U.S. and Canada. At the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., "Archie" McIndoe, a modest, broad-backed man of 48, will address an alumni association filled with old classmates and students. (He went to Mayo from New Zealand on a fellowship in 1924 and stayed on to teach...
Beside Mackenzie King in the high-ceilinged old office in the East Block sat Lester Bowles Pearson, Canada's ace diplomat. For once he seemed ill at ease, like a modest football hero. Mackenzie King was ready to tell the press the week's top secret: from Louis St. Laurent, Prime Minister-to-be, "Mike" Pearson was taking over the job of Secretary of State for External Affairs...
...pleasant to see Sally Eilers again, even as a hungry widow; all the other players do all right, too, within the modest requirements of this kind of piece. The Cinecolor, as usual, is fine so long as the colors are low-keyed, but in open sunlight, all outdoors looks like a roast beef special...