Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...give mothers-to-be the impression that to produce two quarts of prime milk is possible only to a mother of such brave porportions as Mrs. Joell. That is my present production figure, and between babies my measure is a modest 32-my profile as flat as a table...
...indication that the bomb had lost nothing of its political force came from Russia. Wrote Pravda: "In New York one may buy atomic ties, in restaurants they serve atomic cocktails, and on variety stages there are atomic blondes. . . . Against such a background . . . the results of the tests were more modest than . . . expected. [But the test confirmed] that the atomic bomb possesses enormous destructive power." Pravda stuck to its story that the U.S. was plotting atomic war: "[The test] basically undermined faith in the seriousness of U.S. talks of atomic disarmament...
Besieged by readers with their own ideas of someone too terrible to see, the Omaha World-Herald put up a modest prize. In one week it received 3,008 sketches. The winner (see cut) was by John P. Morton, 20, who is studying for the Catholic priesthood...
...select circle of the prewar Harvard faculty, to which the heroine is hostess; the novel exhibits the breakdown of 1) the principle of selection, 2) the circle, and 3) the hostess. Miss Howe (sister of radio commentator Quincy Howe, daughter of Mark De Wolfe Howe) works a modest claim in territory on which J. P. Marquand had an option. Her ear is attentive, though incapable of his flights of parody; her knowledge of Boston, Cambridge and Harvard politics is sharp and sometimes subtle; her style is firm, though it would have been firmer to reject a few cliches: metaphors involving...