Word: modestly
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Parliament Said No. Other Anglican bodies have frequently updated their editions of the Prayer Book-the U.S. Episcopal Church did so in 1892 and 1928. But the established Church of England has not had a new edition since 1662; in 1928, Parliament coldly voted down a relatively modest revision that shortened and modernized some language, yet left the structure of the services intact. But so great was the pastoral need for change that many parish priests began using the 1928 revisions on their own, illegally...
...overhaul, President George Meany deftly moved eight men of his own choice onto the federation's 29-man executive council. None of those removed was an active leader in his individual union; all those elected to the council hold important offices in their home unions. The changes, a modest response to criticism that the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s top echelon has lost touch with its 12.8 million dues payers, lowered the average age of the council from...
...Simple, modest and dignified-those were the words I had to go on," Johnson said. His scheme, after six months of study, was indeed simplicity itself. On a one-acre lot still to be cleared, he proposed erecting an open box with narrow openings at either end, "like a pair of magnets about to clamp together but held apart by some powerful force." Material for the 50-ft.-sq., 30-ft.-high sanctuary will be unadorned concrete-"the material...
...moved to New York 22 years ago and whose father bought him a seat on the Stock Exchange in 1962 (estimated price: $175,000). The elder Fords were not overjoyed with the match, partly because Uzielli is a divorced man whose marriage has not yet been annulled. A modest civil ceremony was set for Dec. 28 in the Ford apartment, to be preceded by a big party the night before atop the RCA Building...
...writer in Maugham emerged at medical school in London, where before getting his degree he waded systematically, if surreptitiously, through the classics and published his first novel, Liza of Lambeth, in 1897. Maugham was 23. Liza was only a modest success, but on the strength of it, he abandoned medicine for good...