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Word: modestly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Modest Overcoat. Here you will meet taxi drivers and tailors and government workers and Carabinieri off guard duty at the pompous official buildings a few blocks away. On a particular evening last week, a short, broad-shouldered man in a modest heavy black overcoat, a weather-worn grey hat, came in about 9 o'clock and gave a casual "buona sera" to the grinning waiters, who know him well. He likes to come here often, to talk casually with the Italian workers and hear what they have to say. He came over and shook hands and sat down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pizza with Togliatti | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

Head Kitchenman Manuel Avala testified that, after he had joined the union, Billingsley had him shadowed, hissed at him one day: "You are the skunk of the earth." Modest Manuel added: "I can't tell any of the other things he said. Only on the Bowery is such language used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Nothing So Pretty | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

While a jubilant world Jewry acclaimed the victory of partition (see FOREIGN NEWS), a quieter celebration went on last week in a modest office off Zion Square in Jerusalem. Editor Gershon Agronsky, 54, just home from covering the fateful U.N. debates at Lake Success, gathered his Palestine Post staffers around him. While they sang Happy Birthday, he gravely cut a cake and the staff sipped wine. Thus the doughty little (circ. 23,000) daily that is the London Times of the Middle East-and the authoritative voice of the Zionist moderates-passed its 15th birthday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Birthday in Zion | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

...this sea of grass, Captain King and a steamboating partner, Captain Mifflin Kenedy, launched a modest cattle business. It boomed during the Civil War. They drove cattle and horses to the Confederate troops, and their steamboats, laden with cotton, ran the Union blockade. As money rolled in (at cost plus 10%) they added to their lands, then split up. (The Kenedy Ranch today adjoins the King Ranch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Big as All Outdoors | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

...College, Adams House leads the sale of left-of-center magazines, while Leverett, once known as "the Moscow on the Charles," trails far behind. Compared to the modest 11 percent at Leverett, 28 percent of the news-weeklies bought by the Gold Coasters are either the Nation or the New Republic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Liberal Strength Lodged in Graduate Schools, Newsstand Survey Indicates | 12/10/1947 | See Source »

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