Word: modestly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Modest Canada would blush to have invented Red China's grandiose motto "Great Leap Forward"-but in the past decade Canada has leaped. High in resources and low in population. Canada has taken giant strides toward a level of prosperity that only the U.S. surpasses; while the U.S.'s gross national product has climbed 50% since 1950, Canada's has jumped 90%-an advance in which U.S. investment dollars played a dominant role. Cuba, for its part, seems intent on adopting patterns from Red China. In the eleven months since Fidel Castro appeared on TIME...
Eleven years ago, the old gentleman was put out to academic pasture at Stanford University. At 76, he likes to sit about knitting afghan squares; he makes popovers and feijoa jam at his modest home on the Palo Alto campus. He owns one business suit and supports a rusty 1946 Ford on his pension of $3,200 a year...
...memo solemnly advised its staff against keeping "gifts of substantial value," a qualification so vague that when Assistant Managing Editor Theodore Bernstein was pressed for specific proscriptions, he could only answer with a grin, "No yachts." The Minneapolis Star and Tribune restated existing policy: "Never accept more than a modest amount of anything one can eat, or drink, or that wilts." The St. Louis Globe-Democrat reminded staffers of the paper's longstanding objection to acceptance of gifts-particularly anything worth more than...