Word: modestly
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Polyglot Population. The Israelis achieved social miracles as well?if on a more modest scale. The waves of postwar immigrants threw together Jews of all possible backgrounds and appearances, from the brown-skinned illiterate Yemeni to the bearded Orthodox Jews of East Europe's ghettos to the sport-shirted sophisticates of the West. Gathered from 100 different countries of the Diaspora, they spoke 100 languages and worshiped their God according to the divergent traditions of myriad Jewish sects. Though many modern Jews pay only lip service to their religion, Orthodox Jews dominated Israeli society and lawmaking from the first...
...century is that it still exists. It is thus little wonder that the 4,600,000 Finns intend to mark the 50th anniversary of their country's independence this year with a series of national celebrations. The festivities began this week with a parade of Finland's modest armed forces through the capital of Helsinki, whose distinction is that it is the world's second northernmost capital (after Iceland's Reykjavik). While the navy's Russian-built destroyers rode at anchor in the harbor, the army's British tanks and French artillery rolled through...
...more per capita than any other nation-but it is surprising that anyone remembers. The man with the long memory is none other than Prince Bernhard, 55, at whose suggestion 60 Dutch companies, organizations, trade unions and individuals have contributed $200,000 for what Bernhard calls "Holland's modest thank-you"-an endowed chair in The Netherlands civilization at Harvard, where Secretary of State George C. Marshall first announced the Plan 20 years ago. Called "the Erasmus Lectorship," the chair will be filled each year by a visiting Dutch professor, beginning next fall with Art Historian Frans...
...really modest. From the start, he had a sense of being apart, endowed with special purpose. Once he had concluded that somebody could fly nonstop and solo from New York to Paris, he decided that it might as well be he. The whole business of financing and designing his plane seems in retrospect hair-raisingly slapdash. But he knew exactly what he was doing. Examining reports of earlier crashes, he figured that everything had to be subordinated to saving weight; for instance, elaborate equipment for a forced landing, he decided, was not worth the cost in weight, which could...
Maidens may not need much protection from pestilence these days, but the Y.W. is still the lady bountiful helping young girls in need. From its modest beginnings, the Y.W. has grown into an international organization of 2,200,000 members, operating 264 residences across the U.S. and carrying on activities in 74 countries abroad. No longer sexually segregated, the Y.W. has more than 240,000 men enrolled in its mammoth educational and recreational programs, which offer an assortment of courses ranging from cooking and shorthand to yoga and judo...