Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hardly to be expected that John L. Lewis' modest personality would be subdued by his steel poll success; but yesterday he overstepped not only the bounds of prudence but also of political common sense. For the C.I.O. chief was not satisfied with merely deploring the action of the judge who has forced labor workers Hapgood and aids to "languish" behind cold steel. Lewis stated that he blamed the State and all the people in the State for allowing such a thing to happen. In fact, he expressed the hope that no person connected with or interested in the C.I.O. would...
Scotland's modest soft. Loch Ness monster "Nessy" at least has this over Ireland's Loch Dearg creature: photographic views of it have been published by the Illustrated London News and the New York Times...
...York, spend their last evening together on a mild spree and then, in a scene marked by its skilful reticence, say good-by at the train. Good shot: Lucy and Barkley accepting an invitation to try out a new car by a salesman who suspects that their modest clothes and quiet bearing are the insignia of wealth...
Among U. S. editors and statesmen the prestige of Foreign Affairs, sobersided, grey-backed quarterly, is high. Its circulation is modest (9.500). When Foreign Affairs' thick-thatched, sobersided editor, Hamilton Fish Armstrong, addresses his audience, he does not hope to be heard by the U. S. at large. But sometimes Editor Armstrong has more to say than he can pack into the pages of his quarterly and wants to say it to more than his usual readers. On such occasions his thoughts overflow into a book, the fruit of studious reading, conservatively liberal thinking, alert observations gleaned...
...late as June 27 economists including Cleveland's Col. Leonard Porter Ayres saw no signs that General Dawes was right. But less than two weeks later (TIME, July 22, 1935) steel ingot production suddenly began the rise which has been virtually continuous ever since. By this modest but clean-cut feat Banker Dawes gained a reputation as a Recovery Prophet.* Starting up from his laurels last week, "Charlie"' Dawes published a 45-page book, How Long Prosperity?, in which he risked another and equally definite prediction. His answer to his own question: barring currency inflation...