Tchaikovsky had four brothers (Nikolai, Ippolit, and twins Anatoly and Modest), a sister, Alexandra and a half-sister Zinaida from his father's first marriage.
These three modest, drunk sisters invented the whole idea of the medium.
Mother got a handkerchief, Dad a modest shaving set, Sister a glittering bracelet, and Grandma ten ten-cent thimbles.
Because he was a very modest man — his sister was very ill, so he would go every day with the public transport to visit her.
BACK home in Weston, where Mr. Allen's mother owns a small white cottage in a wooded area surrounded by similarly modest houses, his sister, Phoebe, 17, was upstairs in her bedroom, doing homework.
On August 16th, Henry De Koven, brother of the girl, arrived in Paris, made a touching, dignified statement that "in our modest family my sister is considered a serious-minded girl, incapable of the acts which have been insinuated, either any escapade or publicity stunts," and offered in the name of his father, Abraham De Koven, a 10,000-franc reward.
Modest and their sister Sasha, in turn, had warned against such a step.
Coefficients and odds ratios for the association of PMD with breast cancer showed evidence of modest attenuation when sister controls were used, controlling for all covariates, although the confidence intervals of the odds ratios overlapped substantially with those for unrelated controls.
Although hTERT-expressing Stn1 knockdown cells still encountered a modest increase in sister telomere loss compared to control cells (Fig. S3C, Supporting information), these sporadic telomere attrition events did not induce detectable changes to cell proliferation kinetics or to loss of cell viability (Fig. 5A).
Yet we found only modest correlation between sisters in duration of oral contraceptive use.
