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Word: modestly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Duke & Duchess of Windsor celebrated the Duke's 54th birthday at the Stork Club, next day sailed off for their occasional home in France, with a modest retinue and 120 pieces of luggage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Coming & Going | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

...Albans, founded by monks in 948, is one of England's oldest schools (St. Peter's, York, founded in the 6th Century, is generally regarded as the oldest). Long out-glittered by Eton and Harrow, St. Albans has kept to its modest tradition of service to the boys of the town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The First 1,000 Years | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

...against its long list of futile endeavors, the United Nations could point to a few modest successes. One was the truce agreement between the Dutch and the Indonesian Republic. Last week that small star in U.N.'s crown was fading fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Confidentially. . . | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

...gold can be. It is hard to imagine better work, along traditional lines, than that of Felix Aylmer, snuffling and badgering about as Polonius; or of Basil Sydney (who once played a memorable Hamlet, in modern dress) as the corrupt, tormented usurper; or of Norman Wooland as a gentle, modest, steadfast and wise Horatio. Stanley Holloway, as the Gravedigger, is blessedly out-of-tradition;* he seemed to have learned his lines from the earth itself, not from "Shakespearean" pseudo-rustics. Terence Morgan, as Laertes, is the quintessence of an old aristocrat's fine, somewhat spoiled son. For once, Queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Olivier's Hamlet | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

Four Faces West. Harry Sherman's modest, attractive picture of the Southwest; with Joel McCrea, Charles Bickford, Frances Dee (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Jun. 21, 1948 | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

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