Word: modicums
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...examples of a social consciousness so primitive and mordant that they should embarrass the sensitivities of this community more than they enflame the anger of the residents of the South End. As for Mr. Dalquist and the Editorial staff of The Crimson, I hope that maturity will bring a modicum of circumspection and compassion which their breeding has to date failed to produce. Robert P. Young, Jr. Admissions Office...
...this point, the viewer tolerates a certain modicum of fatuousness. But about half-way through the encounter scenes of the two lovers-to-be, one begins to have serious doubts about the movie. Caroline, the girl Elgin falls in love with, is played by Susan Dey--former member of the Partridge Family--who does a decent job, considering she must portray one of those vague people who consistently has trouble figuring out what it is all about...
...Modicum of Progress. During the final 36 hours of the meeting, haggard and dispirited delegates shuffled from conference room to conference room seeking some small patch of common ground upon which a final communiqué could be based. The resulting document, while it conceded a modicum of progress, expressed the South's "regret" that "certain proposals for urgent actions had not been agreed upon...
...Crimson came in seeking a modicum of revenge for their earlier nine-stroke defeat at the hands of the Tigers in the Ivy League championship. At one point the linksmen were nurturing a nine-stroke lead and, with six out of seven players in the clubhouse, Harvard was still clinging to a one-stroke edge...
...science by professing astonishment that such small, seemingly insignificant things as "genes" can possibly influence everyday affairs--we wonder if she believes in atoms? "Did the U.S. wage war in Indochina in order to spread American genes?" she queries in blithe ignorance. It is obvious to anyone with a modicum of reasoning powers that Professor Wilson had nothing of the sort in mind when he wrote his book, but was simply suggesting that biological factors as well as environmental effects influence man's well-known penchant for aggression. Such a suggestion, especially considering the vast weight of evidence that backs...