Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Collier's last week featured Paul Christman as the Dizzy Dean of football. His Missouri college mates strongly disapprove of the comparison. To point out that he is just a merry, modest young fellow, they tell how, after a Missouri defeat, Big Paul ambled off the field, wagging his head: "Me a football player? I should know better...
Last week, modest, 65-year-old Mrs. Ashurst had a few paragraphs to herself in the newspapers which had devoted columns to her famed husband. At her home in Washington, after long illness, Mrs. Ashurst died. The Senator, for this occasion, found no words adequate...
...Progressive Education Association and American Philosophical Association, had arranged to honor him. Honor him they did, with oratory and applause. But Dr. Dewey heard them not. He was not in Manhattan, not in Chicago, not in any of a dozen other places where Dewey birthday meetings were held. Painfully modest Dr. Dewey had hidden himself on a daughter's ranch in Greencastle...
Tennessee's prowess, for the most part, is attributed to modest, Texas-born Major Robert Reese Neyland (pronounced knee-land), football coach since 1926. Famed 25 years ago as one of the greatest all-round athletes ever turned out at West Point, The Major (as he is known to his players) is at long last being recognized as one of the great football coaches of the U. S. In twelve years (one year he was unable to coach because of Army duty in the Canal Zone)* he has turned out six undefeated teams, and his record of 102 victories...
...Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Foreign Minister; Fish's proposal to the Inter-Parliamentary Union of a 30-day armistice for the "four great powers" to settle European problems; Fish's statement that Germany's claims are "just." Mr. Woodrum passed over Mr. Fish's modest willingness, expressed in Berlin, to arbitrate the Danzig dispute personally...