Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...want to give anything at first. After Shanghai's Mayor K. C. Wu threatened to publish the names of wealthy nongivers, Tu pledged $2,000. Most other "givers" were even more niggardly. Last week, after 5½ months of wheedling and pressure, less than half the modest target amount...
Right alongside the Dodgers this week were the St. Louis Cardinals, thanks mainly to a modest young outfielder named Stan Musial, who owns the league's most sensational batting average (.381) and also leads the league in runs batted in (95), hits, runs, doubles and triples...
...Unilever empire through the back door. In 1938, up & coming young Charles Luckman hired him to redesign the package for Pepsodent toothpaste. Most toothpaste packages then screamed for attention with garish red containers and bold black print. Loewy persuaded Pepsodent to give its package an aseptic white exterior, with modest script lettering, which would make it look nice on a cosmetics counter. Up went Pepsodent's sales by 17%. When Pepsodent and Luckman moved into Unilever's huge U.S. branch, Lever Bros. Co., Loewy went with them...
...modest booth at the fair held 29 of Picasso's proudest plates, painted with abstract and neo-classical motifs. Franchise's face-happy, sad or angry-his baby's smile, a bullfighter, a skeletal fish, were repeated often in his designs. There were also ten deep jugs and thin-necked jars designed as a sort of hollow painted sculpture. One of the liveliest was half-pot and half-owl. Picasso's pottery owed a great deal to archaic Mediterranean sculpture and ceramics, which represented beasts and gods in a similar bulging shorthand, but it also...
Four Faces West. Harry Sherman's modest, attractive picture of the Southwest, with Joel McCrea, Charles Bickford, Frances Dee (TIME...