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Word: modestly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ethnic studies is a moderate and modest request. All students at Harvard are asking for is more courses in ethnic studies. More scholarship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ethnic Studies Has Merit | 5/10/1996 | See Source »

...former writing teacher (Stanford, University of Wyoming) is also a force of corporate profit. Her first two novels were modest successes; her third was Waiting to Exhale, which swept the nation's bedrooms, beaches, hair salons, reading groups and rush-hour subway trains, selling almost 700,000 hard copies in the process and 3 million more in paperback. Numbers like these would have drawn any publisher's attention, of course. The fact that an African-American author was writing about vivid characters with whom many black women could identify had the added effect of proving to booksellers that there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOME GROOVE | 5/6/1996 | See Source »

...late Friday afternoon, with the final session winding down and the supply of Jackie and Camelot memorabilia drying up, the feeding frenzy at Sotheby's reached a climax. Three modest cushions, assessed at $50 to $100, were snapped up for $25,300. When it was all over, the total proceeds from the auction, which the upper ranges of Sotheby's estimates would have placed at about $4 million, came to $34.5 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHAT PRICE CAMELOT? | 5/6/1996 | See Source »

...dropped to 5.4 percent -->