Word: modicums
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...meanwhile, before this coming period of "blind reaction," which Mr. Sweezy indicates has not yet arrived, perhaps the Cambridge Union could build up a large debt in its own favor. Labor needs a modicum of intelligence in its leadership; wages cannot be raised solely by redistribution, and the problems of increase in general wealth to be distributed,--of a total increase in national well-being, have so far seemed beyond labor leaders' powers of understanding. In the meanwhile, therefore, Cambridge Union teachers may possibly be able to give good advice to such leaders, even influence them toward desirable activities...
...various undergraduate organizations deliver eloquent orations, intermingled with the time-honored jokes of the occasion, on the many benefits accruing to the yearlings from participation in the speakers' specific activities. Following a custom sanctified by 300 classes of Harvard men, the speakers will mildly insult the newcomers, deliver a modicum of advice, and partake of light refreshments...
...themselves how sordid, graft-ridden and enslaved by party machines he found U. S. Democracy. This brought His Lordship to his point, namely, that the House of Lords ought not to pass the India Bill (TIME, June 17) on second reading last week because it may give Indians a modicum of Democracy. "How are you going to void some great political machine's controlling the great masses of India?" cried Salisbury's son, urging that 350,000,000 Indians should remain under the benevolent rule of British civil servants...
Under iron-willed Reichsbank Governor Dr. Hjalmar Schacht's system of keeping the German mark theoretically on gold, Germans are virtually cooped up in Germany by the extreme difficulty of getting permission to take out even a modicum of money when they want to go abroad. Last week 86 privileged Nazi tourists arrived in Manhattan aboard the S. S. Stuttgart with spending money of $20 each, supposed to last five days. Said sturdy Franz Luppe, superintendent of a Dessau brewery, "Some of my countrymen are foolish enough to waste their money on banana splits...
...Strike, N.S.L. and Communism are synonymous terms has prevented wide and whole-hearted support of a move which it has itself editorially supported namely, the promotion of peace. Until last year's affair can be forgotten, or unless the CRIMSON takes steps to rectify its inadvertancy, only a modicum of serious thought can be expected of Harvard student on this account. S. R. Srole...