But, I Thought It Already Had ... Isn't that Why They Called It Humble?

2012.One of the best sentences ever, caught in passing on the Wikipedia page on Exxon:

... Humble officials realized by the late 1960s that the time had come to swallow its pride ...

If they hadn't by that time, wasn't it misleading to call themselves Humble?

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