Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Conservatives nominated him for President last March, Millionaire Businessman Mariano Ospina Perez moved from his Norman castle in Bogota to a modest, two-story bungalow near by. Last week he prepared to move again. His address after Aug. 7:Palacio Presidencial. Elected when two candidates split the Liberal vote,* Ospina Perez would be Colombia's first Conservative President in 16 years...
...remembers his start in the business as modest enough. He and a classmate, Harry G. Olkin '34, invested all their capital in four bicycles and set themselves up in Brooke Hall, where J. P. Morgan, another great entrepreneur, used to live. A gasoline station opposite the Freshman Union, soon displaced him, and he moved into his present quarters...
Sweden's atomic program, modest compared to the great powers', included two large cyclotrons. Both would be built with private capital, including funds from the Rockefeller Foundation. Both would be built in underground laboratories...
Full of such sidelights and highlights, My Three Years is good-natured, modest, knowledgeable reporting. It makes few judgments and adds only anecdotes-not insights-to the U.S. knowledge of Eisenhower. "I found myself," Butcher says, "continually in a dilemma while editing the diary. Some of the entries . . . appeared too brutally frank for publication. Yet I wanted to give the reader an honest report. . . ." He sold it for $175,000, the highest price of the war, to the Saturday Evening Post. Captain Butcher and his literary agent get it all, but Ike Eisenhower can be grateful to his old friend...
...what gives the film its modest greatness and its permanent value is its record of one of the few beneficent giants of this century: Toscanini. Often the camera shows that he is singing, shouting, speaking through the music, and for the sake of history it is too bad that his voice is lost in the sound-track din. But the face itself shows God's plenty. Incredibly concentrated, vigilant and severe, it has the intensity of a crucible, the ultimate, almost masklike human magnificence which may be seen in the sculpture of Michelangelo. This face is all the more...