Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brawer (Area of Social Science), Edward Herrick Cook, John Daniel Cotman, Jr. (Chemistry), Joseph Bailey Dillon (Economics), Donald Forte (Sociology), William Arthur Glynn (Romance Languages and Literatures), Harry Samuel Hall (Government), Bradford Davis Haseltine (History), Myron Stuart Kaufmann, Richard Henri MacNeal (Engineering Sciences), Vyv Byron Mather, (Economics), Edward Julian Modest (Chemistry...
Impulsora's backers (so far its capital is a modest $500,000) are 50% Mexicans, 50% U.S. citizens, but its president is 100%-Mexican Salvador Ugarte, who also heads Mexico City's potent Banco de Comercio. Its purpose is to find ways of investing the long-term capital of both countries in productive Mexican enterprise; its pet project is to help U.S. corporations establish branch plants that will be 50% Mexican-owned. Said Charlie Glore last week, understating the case for his corporation: "Business in Mexico is going to be small for some time ... it has to grow...
...quite sure if it was Franz Lizst who was responsible for the beginnings of transcriptions, but he seems to have more or less instituted and popularized a custom which, although it has had its useful aspects, has more often resulted in "veritable prostitution of the art." The dear old modest fellow, not wishing to pass up any opportunities, Lizst emasculated and rewrote established works to suit Lizst, placed his name next to that of the rightful composer, and then went merrily about astonishing his audiences by playing the music, which had been absurdly bedecked by frills, trills, and what-nots...
...lobby a young girl stood silently looking at the blown-up portrait of Harry James-a slender, mustachioed, modest young musician...
...individual lies at the foundation of a labor economy in a democracy. Our aim must be the achievement of a standard of living compatible with that dignity. . . . No nation has as yet fully achieved that objective. . . . The Commission cannot forbear the hope that its report will make some modest contribution to the material and moral progress of the conditions of labor in Bolivia...