Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Desert," once owned by Barbara Hutton. Avak paid a brief visit to his new patient, placed his hands on Vaughn Arakelian's shoulders and told him: "You are going to get well in a very short time." Then the young faith healer retired to the more modest home of one of Arakelian's neighbors. He walked in the yard, went for an auto ride through town, ate cheese, vegetables and bread. He could read no English, but he ruffled interestedly through stacks of mail and telegrams which began to arrive...
...younger members of the Rana family, most of whom were educated in British India. U.S. mission members found that these young Nepalese have clear ideas about what they want to do, are keen to modernize Nepal, but do not want to hurry. Their plan now is to sell a modest amount of jute, linseed, probably drugs and some musk (the perfume-producing sac of the musk deer). In that way, they would create a small dollar balance with which to buy U.S. machinery and hire U.S. technicians. Nepal's younger generals asked U.S. help in making economic surveys, inspecting...
...brother Samuel (who died of a heart attack in a Paris subway station in 1938) of charges of embezzlement that allegedly caused the 1932 collapse of their fabulous $2 billion Middle West Utility Co. British subject Insull was subsequently deported to Canada, where, until his death, he lived in modest obscurity...
...would seem to have chosen texts that are somewhat over-weighty both by their antiquity and by their abundance of imagery. In all three cases, less text and more music would have produced works better equilibrated. Copland's is the least ambitious expressively of the three pieces. It is modest and thin of substance. Hindemith's is more pretentious and more complex but not a whit more expressive. Malipicro's is the richest of them, matches most nearly with music the grandeur of its verbal text. It might seem even more adequately Virgilian than it does if, orchestral instruments were...
...gong out of vogue, the replies revealed, as 90 percent of the girls chose the "masculine" over the "gruffly masculine," with three votes cast for "effeminate" and none for "extremely effeminate." Over half the subjects felt more at home with "experienced men, though "modest" ran a close second, leaving the way open for all but the "eynical" and "naive...