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Word: bared (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after invoking a hall of "poor loser" criticism, the bare facts remain, that undergraduate members of the University must take their chances among forty eight thousand graduates for the privilege of watching, at least from hailing distance, what is primarily an undergraduate function. A suggestion for change now can do no possible good to those who feel the burden of a present cross, but for future generations of undergraduates, as the saying goes, perhaps it will not have been suggested in vain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LET THEM SEE | 10/14/1927 | See Source »

...began falling from a great height and that at a height of about 70 feet a wing fell off and the great machine hurtled, dead weight, to the ground, half burying itself. The corpses were mangled almost beyond recognition. All, save Seiler, were instantly killed, the mechanic merely showing bare signs of life and passing away without regaining consciousness. The accident was ascribed to an airpocket dashing the ma-chine to the ground, a hardly feasible premise; another guess was that the pilot had died suddenly of heart disease. A rumor of political assassination was dismissed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Death of von Maltzan | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

...delegated to the parents of the potential applicant. He then goes on to show by means of very pertinent and quite informal examples of individual cases, the misfortune of social maladjustment in college resulting from the attitude of parents who either can not or will not recognize the bare truth--that Johnny's temperament is not adaptable to the life of a higher educational institution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION | 10/1/1927 | See Source »

...Arthur confined himself to nothing more than a bare outline of Darwin's achievement, contenting himself with the assertion that the human species has been evolved from a "humble primate animal" and that man and ape have a common ancestor. The theory itself was not otherwise touched upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: At Leeds | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

...counsel for the defense, led by Lawyer Arthur D. Hill redoubled their activities. Their clients had been subjected to a shock which, psychologically and philosophically speaking, was easily the equivalent of any crime they might have committed against society. Society, through its legal machinery in Massachusetts, had started to bare the skins of Prisoners Sacco, Vanzetti and Madeiros for the touch of Death and then, with a reprieve of which the melodrama was a cheap insult to whatever dignity human life may have, virtually mumbled: ". . . Live on for twelve days longer. Our mind is not quite made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: In Charlestown | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

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