Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...office-began at the start of the fall term in modest dimensions as the brain-child of a group of Brooks House members who felt that the trip into Boston for theater tickets could be by-passed by members of the University without any serious loss. Managers of Hub theaters fell in with the ticket agency plan, which they foresaw as a selling...
...Dealer, is sincere but tart, and has to be reprimanded by Roosevelt for using the word "stink" in front of Mr. Churchill. Author Franklin, who once worked for the State Department as an economist and was active in psychological warfare during World War II, plays the none-too-modest role of moderator between the Chiefs of State...
...this seemed "just like a miracle" to the simple, modest person who founded the business 47 years ago. Most customers do not know that 1) the founder is a woman and 2) her name is actually Lane Bryant...
...modest, sometimes wan little book, The Long Wing is unlikely to cause much ruckus in the lending libraries, but it is as able a first novel as the season has shown thus far. Author Elizabeth Fenwick, a slim, soft-spoken girl of 26, was born in St. Louis; her marriage in 1941 to a French instructor at Cornell barely outlasted the war. She now lives alone in a basement apartment near the Cornell campus, writing a second novel of family life. Says she: "Families fascinate me, probably because I've never had any real family life myself...
...every ballot distributed today and tomorrow will be a simple choice, printed in bold-face type for easy reading: Yes or No. The temptation of ignorance runs always toward negation; Harvard College in the post-war can rout the dual enemies of immaturity and indifference this afternoon with a modest check in the square next to the word...