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Word: modestly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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That the Union--an affiliate of the A.F. of L.'s Hotel Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union--contains a minority Communist influence has nothing to do with the issues of the current case. The demands appear to be both just and modest; and the striking methods have been reasonably mild. Should the Club refuse the present offer to arbitrate, alumni throughout the nation should bring pressure to bear on its management. The name of Harvard should not be connected with the sort of cutthroat labor practices that such a refusal would make evident...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Time to Arbitrate | 4/10/1948 | See Source »

...Committee's only failing is that its $20,000 goal is too modest. Last spring's committee collected $22,000, and sets a record for the highest total and the highest per capita contribution made by any University in the nation. There is no reason why this record cannot be broken. $30,000 should not be beyond the reach of a student body of 12,000. Every students and Faculty member should take the fullest possible advantage of this opportunity to contribute to a major humanitarian cause. At the same time no one should forget that his gift inherently contains...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Food Drive | 4/6/1948 | See Source »

Last week, in the study of a modest, middle-class home in suburban Paris, death came to Nikolai Berdyaev, 74, one of the great religious philosophers of his time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Berdyaev | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

Until replacement of the destroyed pants can be made, the embarrassed Eils may have to row a modest distance from all inhabited shorelines...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yalies Lose Nether Garments In Boathouse Conflagration | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...fruit and gave his barber $1,020. Madison was neither rich nor extravagant. Like others of his poor but patriotic colleagues, he hardly knew where his next bale of inflationary paper money was coming from. In terms of hard coin, figures Biographer Irving Brant, Madison was living at the modest rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Disembodied Brain | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

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