Word: modicum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wrote: "When I think how this very line, this very word, which I am writing represents money, I am lost in a respectful astonishment...I am paid sixpence per line. With [these last 67 words] I can buy a loaf, a piece of butter, a jug of milk, a modicum of tea-actually enough to make breakfast for the family." Such digressions helped to conceal the sweat and effort that Thackeray put into his work. "I can see him pointing now with his finger," wrote his daughter Anny, "to two or three little words. Sometimes he would show...
Upton--Really, Leo, a modicum of good taste...
...difficulty of a CRIMSON competition is usually exaggerated. Although hard work and previous experience are somewhat helpful, all that is really needed is a modicum of imagination and perseverance...
...difficulty of a CRIMSON competition is usually exaggerated. Although hard work and previous experience is some-what helpful, all that is really needed is a modicum of imagination and perseverance...
...arrange his knowledge with a coherence which is seldom demanded by the one way techniques of papers and exams. Most of all, it can defeat the gamesman's glib use of words and facts to obscure his lack of real insight or awareness, and thereby prod him into a modicum of honest, and rigorous thinking. There does not appear to be any educational substitute for re-examination of one's assertions in a critical light. Such self-testing is seldom a part of an impersonal grading system, in which even the reader's most perceptive comments rarely receive worthwhile response...