Word: bared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story of Charles Darwin is not to be found here*. That was written once and for all by his son. Its bare outline is sufficient for Author Bradford's purpose: born in 1809 (the same day as Abraham Lincoln), son of a prosperous doctor, he attended Edinburgh and Cambridge Universities, gave up tentative plans for medicine and the clergy, obtained the post of naturalist on the cruiser Beagle, was gone five years observing and exploring, married his cousin (one of the pottery Wedgwoods) in 1839, conceived the principle of evolution of species through natural selection the same year, fathered...
Back and sides go bare, go bare...
Having exhumed the private life of Helen of Troy, Professor John Erskine now proceeds to lay bare to the sophisticates the story of Galahad or, as he subjoins, "enough of his life to explain his reputation". There are rumors that exposes of Cleopatra and other famous and lovely ladies of antiquity will follow. Mr. Erskine has struck a rich vein and his investigations are receiving popular acclaim. If he stops this side of sensationalism, and, from the nature of his own literary character one has the right to assume that he will, he will have provided a new and amusing...
...same record behind their team, three victories, one tie, and one defeat. The Crimson can match the three victories, but two defeats have been chaulked up against Captain Coady's team. On the otherhand, no Tiger backfield has galloped through opposing lines this year for monstrous scores. A bare three touchdowns separates the 68 points Princeton has amassed from the 47 points which her opponents have piled...
...plans to go to America . . . forgetting their own very real superiorities. . . . America is curiously indifferent to its fate. None of our newspapers has the courage to discuss . . . the Catholic question, the Negro question, the money-power question or even the liquor question. But wait until population increases to the bare subsistence level. Then America will meet her first test...