Word: modicum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marxism proved another "disappointing" path. "I had to work out these things for myself within myself," Spender decided. His autobiography ends nonetheless with this essential work suspended. "Now I am a middle-aged man [42], in the center of life and rotted by a modicum of success, surrounded on the one hand by material responsibilities and on the other by material achievements...
What is certain today is only the modicum of information available one week after the February resignation--but, the man will be under 40 and second, he must be a Harvard graduate...
...Seminar is located only 70 miles from the Russian zone of Austria, and in addition, its activity is such that it absolutely relies on a modicum of European peace in order to remain open...
...assuredly not a Republican, but I do insist on a modicum of fairness. That modicum the CRIMSON may have possessed formerly, but certainly now, wallowing in misconstruction and bias, the CRIMSON has lost any claim to intelligent liberalism, and all claim to any sort of idealism. Charles MacVeagh...
...unexpected developments yesterday struck a modicum of fear into the wallets of Yankee backers. Casimir Konstanty's 75th appearance of the year will be his first as a starter. While surpassing Giant Ace Adams pre-Mexico record of 70 relief performances, Jim won 16, lost seven, and became the odds-on favorite for the league's Most Valuable Player. But before Sawyer deposited him permanently in the bull-pen, Konstanty was, generously speaking...