Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Madame, based on Madame Sans-Gene, a vastly popular 19th century melodrama, is a spectacle that recommends to all producers of such pictures this modest list...
...life, but Miss Capers fretted constantly about what might happen when Brickland and Sunny Burch no longer had her to care for them. Who could possibly love them as she had? Determined that her dogs should not suffer, Miss Capers wrote a will-leaving the bulk of her modest estate to the Humane Society of Western Pennsylvania and stipulating that Brickland and Sunny Burch be put to death...
...Cambridge." And finally, since the asymmetrical building is wrapped around symmetrically spaced pilotis, the structural columns are apt to rise any old place in any given room. But if Harvard has its doubts as to whether the center will ever work smoothly, it does not doubt that this modest-sized building has become the most commanding structure in Cambridge...
While the scientists are still debating the baffling news brought back from Venus, JPL will be gunning for other information beyond the limits of Earth. "Our experience with Mariner II was a modest little nursery-school exercise," says Space Sciences Chief Robert Meghreblian. "It was nothing to compare with what we will do in the next few years...
...Acting President while President Pusey was touring the Orient, appointed a Faculty committee to examine the possibility of protecting the University from fallout. The committee began meeting in November, 1961, and issued a report of its recommendations last March. While the possibility of erecting blast shelters was rejected, a "modest" fallout program seemed worthwhile. John C. Colburn, an architect in the Buildings and Grounds Department, conducted a survey which seemed to indicate that shelter could be found in present basements for the University's 21,500 faculty, staff, and students. Additional space might house another 25,000 members...