Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Monsanto, where Dr. Kyrides avoids his flossy executive offices and spends almost all his time in his laboratory, he is esteemed as a modest, impulsive, absent-minded scientist. His present colleagues did not know of his pioneering work in synthetic rubber until World War II sent them to their reference books...
Company C topped Lowell yesterday, 20 to 15, and with three victories, boasts a modest winning streak of its own. Donahoe of the Bellboys took scoring honors in the defensive battle with eight markers...
...stemmed much of the Times's stodginess, but Van Anda had worked on the New York Sun in the days of the great Charles A. Dana, and had watched the Sun go down because it cared more for fluff than fact. A fact man himself, "V.A." was quiet, modest, a hard worker. He spent every afternoon from 1 to 6 in the office, took four hours off for dinner and a nap; then at 10 he returned to bustle over the proofs, spot weaknesses, and stay until 5 a.m. to get all the news...
...black sedan from the Soviet Embassy stopped one day last week before a modest bungalow on Washington's 21st Street Northeast. A chauffeur delivered a package, with these instructions to the housewife who opened the door: "Handle carefully. For the Honorable Harry D. White...
Died. Rear Admiral Ernest Gregor ("Shorty") Small, 56, modest, soft-spoken onetime commander of the heavy cruiser U.S.S. Salt Lake City, the "one ship fleet'' which sank five Japanese warships, saved the U.S.S. Boise in the Solomon Islands Battle of Cape Esperance; of long illness ; in Manhattan...