Word: modicums
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Though it admitted a modicum of sense in nasal tickling, U. S. medicine at once uttered a warning. Irritation of the sympathetic system gives some relief in certain nervous disorders. Scientifically it is about on a par with the late Emile Coue's "Every day in every way I'm getting better." Dr. Gillet's master is Dr. Fernando Asuero, Spaniard who has been touring Europe and Latin America with the nose-tickling stunt...
...because it is hard and distasteful has long been discredited. The subjects which are difficult and abstract should indeed be taught in as interesting a manner as possible; and the boy whose inaptitude for them has been clearly demonstrated should not be forced to continue. But the modicum of truth remains that progress does not regularly take place along the line of least resistance. Unless the secondary graduate has learned that the satisfaction of a problem vigorously and wisely attacked, of a job well done, is an adequate substitute for the thrill of superficial interest, unless he has developed...
...decade ago used to admire at the cinema, proves to be a better legitimactor than most of his Hollywood brethren who have tried the stage. As the well-tailored and unscrupulous Mayor of an Illinois city, he performs with a constant gusto and occasional subtlety which extracts a modicum of amusement from a superficial play about municipal grafting. The crisis is achieved when the Mayor's thieveries threaten to reflect on his daughter, but there is a boy who loves her and who is able to protect the Mayor's good name for her sake...
...Nite, a Squier, and a Buteus Maiden would do any child's heart good. The adult portions of the play are composed of slightly bored dialogue in Act I, a not too effective suggestion of strain in the first scene of Act III, and, in the final scene, a modicum of action that moves to the weak-kneed close...
Even to disband a horde of China's motley, half-dressed, rapacious hired troops costs dear. Dismissed soldiers must be given work and a modicum of pay or they will revert to banditry, a profession which most of them forsook to join the colors. Last week Finance Minister T. V. Soong, efficient Harvard graduate, announced a bond issue of $30,750,000 to carry out his economy program of disbanding half China's 356,500 troops (TIME...