Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When John and his twin sister, Ella, were six, their mother marched them a mile and a half across the fields to the redbrick, one-room McKendree School. At 14, he and his sister drove in a horse & buggy to the modest high school in pleasant, tree-lined little Mt. Sterling. They took lunch from home, ate it in the buggy on good days, in Ed Snyder's furniture store on bad days...
...they were romping all around the pasture. They had the bulk of Britain's private wealth. They controlled virtually all civilian war industries and Government boards. They had the ablest men in public life, ran the smoothest party organization. Now Winston Churchill could take a hero's modest bow for the victories in North Africa, and his Party shared the political rewards...
Disturbed by the ominous closing of race tracks elsewhere (e.g., Havre de Grace, Hialeah, Tropical Park) because of travel restrictions, Long Island's Jamaica track prepared for a modest opening last week. Parking lots were closed, special trains banned. But railbirds would not be downed...
...been with blatancy and mistranslation and deceit, lies part of the world's hope. It is the hope that some day all the media of intercourse may be free, and the important ones as responsible as they are free, that speech between the great regions may become more modest and exact, that respect for one another's differences and charity to ward one another's faults may be taught through the air and on the screen along with the tragi-comic curiosities of the news, and that not only the facts but the schemes of those...
...biography of a womanly bomber whose crew thrives on calm heroism over the Pacific. Noel Coward may take a bow for the plot which is much like that of "In Which We Serve." Mary Ann is the heroine of the film and deserves the glory for her modest, but moving role. John Garfield and Harry Carey discreetly shun the light of stardom for her benefit, and rightly...