Word: barest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...road map from college. He can get less easily catalogued gifts experience of mental freedom, the contact with cultivated minds (nor are they all dull or completely parched), the ability to adjust interests on some saner scale, the small but glorious gleam of reality which even the barest learning or the continued application of tobacco, friendship, and intelligence sometimes engenders. Mr. Aswell has too much faith in the American college student as a reformer, too little as a college student...
...Divisionals with an evening of musical comedy can scarcely be considered to have the stability of judgment necessary for a critic. Yet that Senior, to whom the only distinguishing mark of vacation has been the absence of the morning CRIMSON (advt.) from under the door, fortunately requires only the barest modicum of acumen to realize that "Merry Merry" is far above and beyond the humdrum level of musical comedy average. In this day of striving for the "bigger and better," it is something of a relief to discover a producer content to concentrate on the "better" at the expense...
...strangling hand, that his dagger has a permanent wave and that his ministrations upon the persons of five young women derive from Jack the Ripper. We infer, that is all. Yet that is ample to earn this Turk several graduate and honorary degrees in murdery. From the barest hints he becomes a lurking presence whose actuality Mr. Houdini could scarce disparage. He and his dirty crew begin ostensibly as figments in the imagination of a marriageable young Connecticut authoress of our time. Then they make it clear that as she has conceived, so shall she bear. No fair telling...
...study of the American Revolution will receive great stimulus from the Report, for the wealth of new material may make possible at last a definite solution of long vexed problems. This short sketch cannot do more than give the barest outlines of the long struggle according to the fresh discoveries. No definite principle on either side can be distinguished, and the old shibboleths of Slavery and States' Rights must now be relegated to the limbo of historical illusions together with the Trade Routes of Troy. Both public and private documents prove that the white troops fought loyally for their masters...
...expect it to be radical? Should trade unions give up the very certain fruits of a semi-monopoly for the shadowy benefits of a collectivistic chimera? In America population has not begun to strip the overflowing bread-basket; elsewhere laborers in millions are deprived of all but the barest minimum, as the limit of population has been reached or even overstepped. In America competition is strong, but it is competition for the best fruits of industry; abroad workers compete for the mere right to survive. Decidedly, foreign laborers, made desperate by economic inevitabilities, are ready to strike...