Word: modicums
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...year," a sophomore explained, "I was really full of great resolves. After a fair performance academically my freshman year I vowed that this was going to be the year. All my courses are fairly interesting, but I haven't been able to muster enough energy to do even a modicum of work all year. I ended up doing all the reading for each of my courses last term the night before the exam, and I frankly doubt whether it will be any different this term...
...prints anything that "achieves," and that the oversupply of cometeries and childhood recollections is purely accidental. "If the Advocate is not always a constant joy to read from cover to cover," he apologizes, "it is because writers and editors learn from mistakes." This issue should provide more than a modicum of instruction for writers and editors; but one can hope that the smaller size is an omen of rising standards...
...against Columbia, things were bleak. The Crimson was in the game until the final 30 seconds, and with a modicum of play as good as they demonstrated against Cornell they could have won it easily...
...each of the articles contains a modicum of interesting data--Rockefeller on the accomplishments of his own administration, Romney on reforms in Michigan, Nixon on the plight of state governments--all read like a cross between a B- Soc Sci 2 paper and the latest agricultural statistics from the Ukraine...
...fortresses and sun-baked desert camps, feuding factions waged a struggle for control. Government was paralyzed and more Europeans were getting out. With industry at a standstill, the U.S., working through church welfare agencies, was feeding one out of five Algerians. What saved Algeria from complete disintegration was a modicum of political maturity and an instinct for survival that made the rival forces at least halfway willing to explore compromises. Emerging from these maneuvers was the near certainty that Ahmed ben Bella, 45, would win his battle "to take over the destiny of Algeria...