Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Transcendent military genius, scholar, historian, statesman, our much beloved Colonel has counseled our legislators, our executives, our admirals, our generals in a most wise and kindly manner. Always humble, modest and self-effacing, he has never boasted of his own great learning and accomplishments. Yet upon his guidance has rested the safety and the greatness of our country. He, and he alone brought victory for America...
...works we are committed . . . to a world united before this common peril. . . . What happened during the war . . . was not science, and its whole spirit was one of frantic and rather ruthless exploitation of the known; it was not that of the sober, modest attempt to penetrate the unknown...
Morse's annual income in good years has been estimated at $260,000. He spent $150,000 on two California homes. When stiffer wartime taxes came along, Morse hired a businessman friend of his to run his financial affairs. The friend now doles him out a modest $30-a-week allowance for lunches, smokes and gin rummy losses...
...Lawyer. In 1919 he started a modest law practice, earning about $35 a month. Soon (1921) he found himself in the limelight of Seattle's famous Mahoney trunk murder. His client. James A. Mahoney, was convicted and hanged, but every crime-reading family in the Northwest knew of Lew Schwellenbach's fight to save...
...Hunted. The correspondents were led to his hideout, a modest suburban house with a flagstone entryway. In the dimness of a tiny front room sat the hunted old man. There was no mistaking Admiral Suzuki, although he wore a commonplace green uniform with no medals or brass buttons. He was a tall, impressive figure, grey-haired, with a short-clipped mustache and a winning smile. His greeting was cordial, but he looked about him carefully when they entered...