Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cheerful, modest Rube Goldberg, 59, was born in San Francisco, studied mining engineering at the University of California, where "big machines impressed me with their futility," designed sewers and water mains for San Francisco. His career as sewer designer ended in 1906 when the city's great earthquake destroyed its (and his) sewage system...
...also, to praise the modest General. I saw him many times on the 20-day trip...
...These modest words were spoken last week by a modest man: trim, 6-ft., ruddy-cheeked Charles Cameron West, founder-owner of Wisconsin's booming Manitowoc Shipbuilding Co., who loves to stride around in muddy shoes, greet workmen by their first names-and build anything that goes to sea. A shipbuilder for 42 of his 65 years, Charles West never broke a Kaiser record, never stole a Kaiser headline. Yet last week he had his own claim to fame as the only inland builder of intricate, tightly packed, oceangoing submarines, was doing so well he had orders for enough...
...distribution personally, the Council has prevented continual drives by individual agencies each intent only upon filling its own quota. This has eliminated an eternal undergraduate nuisance, and guaranteed student support of numerous worth-while causes. Without such a system students would be called on for far more than the modest seven dollars asked by the Fund. They would be tossed from "worthy cause" to "worthy cause," winding up too strapped to support that final "last drive" which really the worthiest of them...
Such systems are all too prevalent at other colleges. They can be prevented here only if the Service Fund is supported sufficiently to permit it to meet the war-time obligations of any charitable organizations. Its demands are modest. Actually, the Fund is doing every student a favor...