Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While the Crimson may have achieved that modest goal yesterday, the end result was nevertheless all-too familiar: a frustrating loss, 7-5, in a game which Harvard appeared to have firmly in its grasp...
...Bernhard, I leave a full-page ad in the Harvard Crimson. Bernhard, one of Harvard's unsung heroes, should tell the world what he has accomplished here, but he'd be too modest to use it. So, I'd just leave him a coaching job at Harvard. He exemplifies the quiet leader in soccer and baseball, and this year he finally received accolades for the soccer team's success...
...your-face rejection...The recommendations of the Standing Committee on benefits were very modest, you know," Paul said. "They were based on a demonstration that many of the cuts being put forth by the task force were inappropriate...
...They all have stories of how he rescued them at the hospital or saved their careers, how they just love talking to him and how they'd do anything for him. I wish he could hear some of the things people say about him. But he would probably be modest, and hand a compliment right back to them...
...dollar dropped to 88.33 yen today from 83.35 late yesterday, while simultaneously picking up modest gains against European currencies. The British pound was virtually unchanged...