Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impression that I wish to correct is that the American of fairly modest means desiring to view the Coronation must first possess himself of a king's ransom, and then be satisfied to sleep on a billiard table, and I am sure that you will be willing to cooperate with me in removing any such impression that your article may have tended to create...
...President Thomas Jefferson 132 years ago decided to uphold the doctrine of "Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute!" with reference to the Barbary Pirates, one of whose chief bases was Derna. These pirates made but a modest living out of Mediterranean shipping. The British & Continentals considered it cheaper to pay moderate tribute than to go to the expense of routing such reasonable pirates. Not so President Jefferson. While the importance of landing the U. S. Marines in 1805 at Derna should not be overemphasized, it was a bold stroke and gave Europe a foretaste of the kind...
...Church. Nevertheless, the movement toward taxing churches has made little headway. In fact, the trend ran in the other direction last Nov. 3, when the voters of Colorado amended the State Constitution to permit exemption, which State courts had denied. But last week liberals were well content with a modest gain registered in the Indiana General Assembly...
...marry a Phi Beta Kappa and Master of Arts who had been an enthusiastic laboratory assistant to him at Maine and a loyal supervisor of women students at Michigan. Mrs. Little No. 2 still takes an intense extramural interest in the mice at Bar Harbor, besides managing the modest house near the Bar Harbor water front in which they live with their children: Richard Warren, 5, and Laura Revere...
...Modest though the Walgreen family may be among U. S. business dynasties, it is not unknown out of the drugstore business. In 1935 one family breakfast after another was spoiled for Drugman Walgreen because his niece, Lucille Norton, 18, prattled about what she was studying as a freshman at the University of Chicago (TIME, April 22, 1935). Uncle Charles found out that Niece Lucille's reading list in a social science course included books about Soviet Russia in addition to such standbys as Herbert Hoover's American Individualism and Walter Lippmann's A Preface to Morals. Upshot...