Word: modestly
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...comprehensive a project as Christianity in a Revolutionary Age might be the masterwork of a lesser historian. For Latourette, the series occupies only a modest corner in the personal five-foot shelf of books he has written or contributed to. In all, he has 88 titles to his credit, including a seven-volume history of Christianity from its beginnings until World War I. Historian Latourette is also that academic rarity-a specialist in two separate fields. Rivaling his fame as a chronicler of Christianity is his reputation as a leading Orientalist: he has written four books on China, including...
When the nation was born, 90% of the population farmed for a living without bureaucratic assistance. In 1838, the House of Representatives failed to pass a modest bill proposing the employment of a clerk to oversee the country's agricultural program. The next year Congress relented, appropriating $1,000 for the "collection of agricultural statistics and for other agricultural purposes." Then, 100 years ago, Abraham Lincoln signed a bill establishing the Department of Agriculture "to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the U.S. useful information on subjects connected with agriculture...
...Angeles, the chain has had trouble making a profit there; last year its two Los Angeles dailies dropped a thumping $3,000,000 between them. But Hearst's new afternoon hybrid, up to 721,026 in daily circulation (from 393,215), now claims to be making an occasional modest weekly profit...
...present the University has no general policy on whether or not to co-operate with the federal government; Tonis will recommend such a policy to the Corporation. The Faculty committee urged a modest fallout shelter program but was disbanded by President Pusey before submitting its final report. Instead, the University decided to make CD planning an "administrative responsibility...
...latest book, The Mind as Nature, a modest little primer for teachers, Eiseley argues that the mind is as mysterious as nature, and that its intuitions are as significant as cold empirical conclusions. "I have been labeled a mystic," writes...