Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...million damage suit against the censorious Eric Johnston office for keeping the Hughes-produced Outlaw and its busty Jane Russell out of most of the nation's cinemas. The front was expanding. British censors were now reported doctoring Miss Russell's outlawful curves, and modest shock was officially registered by the Association of Bill Posters of England and Ireland...
...Modest Monthly. In a spare, four-room suite in Washington, spare, mild-mannered Clarence (Union Now) Streit, 50, was about to launch Freedom & Union as "the journal of the World Republic that does not yet exist." Barring printing delays, the first modest issue of 20,000 copies would go to subscribers next week...
...Most modest of the pre-season tip sheets to come this way so far is one from the Coast Guard Academy. It might be because the Coast Guard doesn't have very much to talk about from last season, having been unable to win a single game, but it might be that a press agent has gotten his fingers is the pie and has gone all over modest. They appointed a new head coach there this spring and four 200 pound tackles are listed on their roster. They might have something...
...modest, unpainted four-room house atop a narrow headland overlooking Japan's Ago Bay, a wizened little man in a brown kimono and a black derby hat shuffled about in a pearly haze. He was Kokichi Mikimoto, who has annoyed more oysters for more profit than any other man. Last week the longtime king of Japan's culture-pearl industry declared the largest personal income in Japan in the first year of American occupation. He had netted three million yen ($200,000) selling pearls to the conquerors...
...flunked the batting test. Afield he showed a minor talent, too. His aim was erratic and he had to be moved from shortstop to second base for the easier peg to first. All he seemed to have was dazzling speed on the bases and a modest, earnest attitude that quickly put him in solid with his white Montreal teammates...