Word: modicum
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...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...
Since the Harvard Athletic Association can schedule only Tufts College to face the Crimson eleven next year, it should at least add a modicum of interest to the game: award the Fietcher School of Diplomacy to the winner of the Harvard-Tufts contest and thereby settle the position of that school. Robert E. Ausnit...
...employees got their jobs back; in others, dismissal was the end result. But in virtually none of the cases was anything accomplished by the loyalty boards, with their mass of rules and regulations and their fumbling procedures, that could not have been done by an individual bureaucrat with a modicum of common sense and the simple right to hire and fire in the interests of national security. And a great deal of time and money, not to mention human agony and governmental dignity, could have been saved...