Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mansfield, bought three rundown farms, built a big house, and organized a cooperative farming community. Pleasant Valley is his story of the venture. Its 301 readable pages are crammed with anecdotes and opinions, experiences in house building and land reclamation, bits of autobiography and local history, and a few modest essays, modeled on Thoreau, on wild life, farm life, and the healing power of the land...
John got a $5,000 war bond, and went off on a Treasury-conducted war bond tour. Marine officers who accompanied him found that Sergeant Basilone was still steady, modest about his honors, anxious to get back to his outfit...
Monty is the subject of a hundred anecdotes ; nobody ever tells a story about Dempsey. He never tells one himself. He is modest and reticent, and enjoys being inconspicuous...
...bull market appear falsely sensational. Actually, after three years of prodding, investors had accomplished no more than to hike stock prices from their low after Singapore's fall to only a few points above their values at the time war began in 1939. To most investors this modest recovery did not seem like a runaway market. But the red flag waved by Eccles was a signal for a tactical retreat...
Bowles turned his sailboat over to the Coast Guard, and moved his wife and three of his children from his Connecticut home to a modest, rented house in McLean, Va. and set to work...