Word: modest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Modest to the point of bashfulness, Professor Gosset explained to last week's newsmen that his appendix exploit was merely a classroom demonstration of two maxims he tries to impress upon all his students...
Hollywood celebrities are paraded across the stage in rapid succession. They are all there, but they don't prove very much. Some day we hope to see the real movie review, and it will be a modest, intimate affair, directed with some restraint and discretion...
...quiet study in the Paris Latin Quarter not far from the grey, ornate pile of the Church of Saint Sulpice, newsgatherers waited last week for Father Jean Verdier, a modest little priest who for years has guided the thoughts and prepared the minds of hundreds of young women preparing to take the veil at the novitiate school of St. Sulpice...
...survey made in these lectures is a guide to work and contemplation. It aims toward giving perspective. It gives a sane and modest view of man's place in the scheme. But in addition to giving a comprehensive view, the classification serves to interpret some phases of the sidereal universe in a clearer form than before...
Instead. Robeson's returning recital was a modest repetition of spirituals he had sung before. As in 1925, critics complained that such a program tends to monotony, that Robeson's range is too limited to offset it. But the lay audience, including such famed white Negrophiles as Novelists Fannie Hurst and Carl Van Vechten, received him ecstatically, applauded tremendously after ''Water Boy,'' "I'm Goin' to Tell God all my Troubles" and "Joshua Fit de Battle ob Jericho." Robeson will remain in the U. S. for two months, will sing at Rutgers...