Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...birth, he was given the name Da-i, two Chinese ideograms that literally mean "Great One," a Taoist term of vast cosmological consequence. It is a name reflecting great expectations. Taichung, however, was a quiet town in the Taiwan boondocks, and the Ho family lived in a modest four-room house with a backyard ditch that served as a toilet and from which farmers collected fertilizer for their fields. To forge a better life for his family, Ho's father took ship in 1956, traveling 18 days on a freighter to America. For nine years, Da-i would know...
...stage high-impact bonding events with widespread student appeal. In spite of differences of opinion about the Undergraduate Council referendum, everyone seems to have the same goal in mind even while disagreeing about how to fulfill it--we need more high quality activities that draw students together. My modest proposal is a little different: instead of fighting over how to create more, let's promote the terrific and woefully under attended events that already take place. My current favorite example is Harvard theater...
...also deals with African-American themes. Thus, for movie executives, an Eddie Murphy comedy like The Nutty Professor--a blockbuster that grossed $129 million from a diverse audience--doesn't count; Spike Lee movies do. So does Set It Off, the heist movie starring Queen Latifah that was a modest hit this fall, with grosses of $26 million, mostly from blacks...
Taylor said the request that land-lords make efforts to maintain protected status is a modest...
...Leonardo da Vinci's lesser notebooks. Compared with the Renaissance master's other surviving manuscripts, Codex Leicester (named for the English family that owned it for two centuries) is trifling, just 18 sheets of linen paper folded in half to produce 72 pages. It contains only modest samples of Leonardo's celebrated draftsmanship--no spectacular drawings of flying machines, no cutaways of the human anatomy or exploded views of geared gadgetry. Still, Microsoft's billionaire boss surely got his money's worth. Of thousands of unbound manuscript pages produced by Leonardo (1452-1519), Codex Leicester is the best evidence...