Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Berlin propagandists suggested that even this modest design has withered. Now, they said, the Wehrmacht has adopted a solely defensive strategy in Russia, (which might include local, limited offensives, but no large-scale blow at the Red Army). They also indicated that the Allied menace in the south influenced this decision...
...Spencer, his successor, is as modest as he is short. But his work in proving the tick transmission of deadly Rocky Mountain spotted fever (in some places it kills nine out of ten) and developing a protective vaccine has brought him a public reputation. He was idealized as the hero of Lloyd Douglas' novel. Green Light-moviegoers know him as the man (Errol Flynn) who went into the Rockies after ticks. Since 1938, as assistant director of the Cancer Institute, he has done much spadework on what heat, radium and cancer-causing substances do to animals...
...This modest if rhetorical utterance is characteristic of florid, balding, loquacious Stark Young, who has been a discerning critic of art and the theater (in the New Republic and elsewhere) for some 20 years. Stark Young is known also as a best-selling novelist (So Red The Rose), a poet, a playwright, a translator of plays and a lecturer. Last week he made a firm bid to be known as a painter, gave his first exhibition at Manhattan's Friends of Greece...
Skyrocket. For years Consolidated struggled along as a modest steel fabricator (one of its big jobs was making spillway gates, tunnel forms, for Boulder Dam) until the defense program handed it a sky rocket. But it was Alden Roach who touched it off, watched his company soar to its present annual rate of $250,000,000, almost 150 times the bleak...
Suddenly G.B.S. remembered the author's work, paid it an offhand compliment: "[Mr. Cole's] book is good enough for the occasion and better; and nothing I have said about it must be taken as a disparagement. . . . He is, if anything, too modest, for the enormous success of socialism in Russia has been a triumph of Fabian tactics over revolutionary catastrophism. . . . The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics can now be quite properly called the Union of Soviet Fabian Socialist Republics...