Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Loudspeakers summoned the populace to the streets night before the Congress opened as doughty Adolf Hitler arrived by plane, drove through the town to the modest little Deutscher Hof, arm bobbing up & down in salute...
...them without charge in her act. Commented Mr. Watson: "I found she is a most maligned young woman: I don't know whether she is a college graduate or not, but there are few college graduates who can speak as well as Miss Rand. She is most modest...
...which every one can win by giving himself a higher rating than he gives to his contemporaries. Hence among best sellers not of a year but of a generation, the Boston Cooking School Cook Book and Emily Post's Etiquette rate close to the Bible. According to the modest estimate of its publishers, Funk & Wagnalls, since its first printing in 1922, Etiquette has sold "many more than 500,000 copies." Last week this 15-year-old youngster among best sellers came from the presses in its first completely revised edition, a new 860-page book on social ceremonial...
Says tennis' modest No. 2: "For three years Tilden has been saying that I am the best amateur. It is the only time I have known him to be wrong." With Tilden's judgment still in doubt, von Cramm and his 22-year-old doubles partner, Henner Henkel, prepared for Forest Hills last fortnight at Chestnut Hill (Mass.), where they met Budge & Mako in the final of the U. S. doubles championship, neatly reversed the two defeats they suffered earlier in the season (Wimbledon semi-finals and Davis Cup interzone final...
...beside gigantic Du Pont or Allied Chemical & Dye, but in the specialized field of H3PO4 (phosphoric acid) and its derivatives Victor is tops. Its materials are used by the nation's biggest makers of baking powder, Pharmaceuticals, dentifrices, fertilizers, matches and fireworks. Last week Mr. Kochs, though a modest man, was eager to tell the world about all this because Victor was making a public offering of stock for the first time in its 35-year career...