Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard freshmen outlasted North-eastern, 91-79. Dave Finholt led Harvard with 25 points, followed by Joe Stanislaw with 18, and Dale Dover with 17. Harvard Northeastern Beller 10 Wallent 3 Kanuth 17 Christopher 7 Norlander 17 Osgood 25 Gallagher 14 Modest 5 Royer 6 Field 14 Johnson 3 Chandler 9 O'Neil 0 Swett 2 Grate 0 Laudati 0 Constantino...
...early days of World War II. The West German government inherited the war-damaged plants, renamed them Salzgitter AG, and nursed them back at a cost of more than $1 billion. Salzgitter provided work for some 70,000 people in a tense and economically weak area and showed a modest profit after it was rebuilt in 1957. But those were still the years of Germany's reconstruction when any and all steel was in demand...
They have parlayed similarly-modest backgrounds and modest talents into modest successes. Individually their efforts have been distributed over the hurdles, 600 yard run, 1000, mile and two-mile. But it is in the relays that balanced strength can lead to the big time, and it is these relays in big-city Gardens that will be the focus of attention in the eight weeks before Harvard faces another team challenge...
...chief engineer of this modest student power coup is Norr, who has worked on pass-fail through every phase of its tangled history. He was a member of the 1966-67 HPC which hit upon the idea one spring afternoon of combining its desire for a free fifth course and pass-fail into one package proposal...
...Modest as it was, his life was probably beyond dreams he might have entertained as a boy in his native Chihuahua, where his parents and their ten children earned a bare subsistence with a vegetable and fruit stand in the market. As any good script would have it, Primitivo, 23, along with his younger brother Alfredo, began a naturalization course at night at Kansas City's Westport High School, the first step to ward his cherished goal of becoming a U.S. citizen. If Primitivo Garcia had been like the U.S. citizens who were around Westport one cold night last...