Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Modest Hut. Swiss-born Bishop Wurm has a talent for diplomacy combined with courage and administrative ability that might have taken him far in politics. The combination has come in handy: in Germany the threads of church and politics are closely intertwined, and have been for years...
Although she is modest about her achievements, she is forced to admit that her letters in the Library of Congress, amounting to 32,000 today, along with her in valuable collection of manuscripts, tell a pretty complete story of the music and musicians of this century...
...MacNeice dropped such high jinks and concentrated on introspective poems about personal life. His characteristic poetry was now modest, quiet and friendly; he contented himself with small observations and neat lyrics...
Increase of the minimum wage to 75 cents is a long overdue measure and should be passed by Congress without difficulty, Hansen said. "It is a very modest proposal," he said, "and actually the purchasing power of the new minimum wage will be less than that of the 40 percent minimum wage when it was originally passed...
...time being, contributors will get modest pay. But lucky Ludwig Bemelmans was allowed to name his own price for a parcel of text and sketches. Said Charlie: "He charged us two cases of champagne, six bottles of brandy, a jar of Coronas and a box of sleeping pills...