Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even outside the conference hall, there was no companionship between the factions, and no gaiety. Most delegates had modest accommodations in second-rate hotels (France's Daniel Mayer shared his room with four colleagues). Only the Rumanian delegate, Serban Voina, had a room in Zurich's best hotel, the lovely, luxurious Baur-au-Lac, whose terraces descend gently to Lake Zurich. Nevertheless, Zurich looked like another Eden to the delegates from poor, hungry countries. Said France's Salomon Grumback: "This city is so clean, you almost become dizzy...
...Hope (1937), one of his characters said: "The danger is that every man carries the desire for an apocalypse in himself. . . . By its very nature, the Apocalypse has no future-not even when it pretends to have one. . . . Our modest function . . . is to organize the Apocalypse...
Kelly, a "Grottie" like his uncle, was captain of the 1935 Harvard football team, studied at Oxford, taught history, football and Bible at Exeter, was a communications officer in the Navy. Modest Headmaster-elect Kelly doesn't feel he is ready for his new job. He plans to take next year off, to attend Harvard's Graduate School of Education-and learn how to be a headmaster...
...Here. Whether the U.S. intended it or not, it now has the world's largest library. And so long as it receives by law two copies of every book copyrighted in the U.S., it will continue to swell. The library began (in 1789) with a Congressman's modest proposal that a committee draw up and price a "catalogue of books" for his colleagues' handy reference. A little more than a century later only the Librarian himself knew how to find the one million ill-catalogued books, and accounts were short $30,000 because a stack of uncashed...
Size of the Dowry. Because of his lavish spending, Rank's pictures netted him only a modest profit last year. But his theaters netted him a profit of about $25 million. Unless the current slump in the box office gets much worse and nips Rank, Hollywood expects that he will have all the cash he needs to finance his picturemaking...