Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These journals of opinion-and limited circulation-chronically lose money and depend on well-heeled readers and sympathizers to bail them annually out of the red. They would be hard put to survive even a modest postal rate increase-and the one under consideration is by no means modest. It would, for example, boost the Nation's annual mail bill from...
...Carnegie's modest Manhattan office on Fifth Avenue, Gardner heads a staff of just 36. including the telephone girl. What makes this small force highly effective is constant scouting trips and close contacts throughout U.S. education. An instance lies in Gardner's simultaneous presidency of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The foundation's board consists of almost every key university president in the country. What they report about education's headaches influences the Carnegie Corporation, which then typically commissions an outside expert to find answers...
...economy. Some harsh disciplines prevent him from employing the customary Democratic devices. He cannot cut interest rates without worsening the outflow of gold to higher interest havens overseas, and he cannot promote massive Government spending programs without unduly distending his budget. He has thus turned to the relatively modest alternative of public works for the depressed areas...
...Hand. Not everyone was so amused. "There can be too much of a good-thing," editorialized the Washington Post, which went on to praise Teddy for his modesty-but with the back of its hand: "He has, to use a famous Churchillian phrase, 'much to be modest about.' " In a similar but far less charitable mood, the New York Times acknowledged that "Edward M. Kennedy is just old enough for the Senate but has few other visible qualifications," acidly suggested that relatives of "prominent officials" should "present some solid evidence of talent before they make the sacrifice...
Jesus' parents were devout Jews, who probably had a mezuzah (a roll of parchment containing an ancient Hebrew prayer known as the Shema) on the doorpost of their modest home in Nazareth and kept a kosher kitchen. "We may deduce," Aron says, "that Jesus observed the dietary laws." Aron believes that Mary probably put tzitzit, or fringes on the child's coat, in obedience to an injunction in Deuteronomy, and that Joseph taught him the carpenter's trade. "Just as it is necessary to feed one's son," says the Talmud, "so it is necessary...