Word: modicums
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...abilities are so little specialized it would make but little difference in the long run into what field of business they entered. The history of many of the greatest figures in modern American industry shows that the field of their successes was chosen almost entirely by chance. Granted a modicum of brains and energy to start with, the indecision displayed by college students as to their intentions may be due to the simple fact that there is no one field in which alone they could look for success...
...registrars stood firm. Only a modicum of relief in special cases was expected from the County election board...
...vast wealth and prestige of Finance Minister Count Volpi enable him to retain a very limited private initiative; and the potent connections of Minister of Colonies Dr. Luigi Federzoni with the Vatican give him likewise a modicum of independence...
...Sixth Pan-American Conference at Havana (TIME, Jan. 16 et seq.) transferred most of its business, last week, from open and public committees to closed and secret subcommittees. With the consequent choking off of oratory, there ensued a modest modicum of progress: ¶ The text of a Pan-American Aviation Treaty was drafted. A vital clause confirms to the U. S. a right to make treaties with the Republic of Panama in such fashion as to exclude foreign air snoopers from the vicinity of the Canal. The treaty as a whole sponsors the "establishment and operation of practicable inter-American...
...Although Il Duce's assent was never indicated in the case of the latter scheme, he was reputedly withheld from agreeing to the former only by the most persistent objections of the Fascist Grand Council, the one body in Italy which has sufficient political might to impose a modicum of restraint upon Big Brother Benito...