Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hillman, a brash young man in high lace shoes, who spoke hopelessly fractured English, persuaded the strikers to ask for modest terms. This was a great accomplishment. He gained the friendship of Joseph Schaffner, who took a sudden vow to better conditions in all his factories. Finally, Sidney Hillman slipped a clause into the strike settlement calling for a permanent arbitration board, an almost revolutionary innovation in labor relations...
Einstein remains a fabulously simple, modest human being.* Says Marianoff...
...spirit of the show is well summed up in Kirstein's catalogue introduction: "The best American battle paintings have been modest. They are filled with the quiet, well observed reporting of the conscientious correspondent, whose notebooks reflect the words of Walt Whitman's great inscription-I was the man, I suffered, I was there...
...Modest Proposal. The debate may become a babel of economic argument on the sort of machine that the Stabilization Fund should be. But some things it cannot be are clear. The proposed Stabilization Fund will not give milk to the world's Hottentots. Nor can it pour out the billions that must be poured into occupied countries if they are to be restored as going economies. Nor can it solve the problem, which loomed huge after the last war, of collecting billions in reparations...
...such a prospect, the proposed World Stabilization Fund is small change, an $8 billion fund into which the U.S. may put two and a half billions, the equivalent of what the nation now spends every ten days on the war. And the Stabilization Fund would undertake a very modest job, by providing a somewhat big ger and more flexible supply of international exchange...