Word: barest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reason to believe that the blackshirts were about to receive another trimming at the hands of the first three line-ups. But yesterday's story was not the same as that of each of the scrimmages held last week. Although beaten by one touchdown, it was only by the barest possible margin that they missed tying the score...
...might also wish to differ with the writer's conclusions upon the mechanics of recording information gathered in college. Any system beyond the barest fundamentals is highly individual; some men retain more of a lecture through scrawling cryptic notes in margins than do others by recording it word for word. The essential information regarding these matters of routine might be given in one short talk...
...touch for the convincing of his fellowmen. It lays out the blank form, as it were, which the student will fill out as he goes along and with increasing understanding of scope and inter-relationship delves into the vast subjects of which the course gives him only the barest of glimpses. It affords the framework and warp into which all the rest of his college and postgraduate work and intellectual acquisitions of his after life may be built in and interwoven...
...means the history of the whole struggle. For three periods the lighter University eleven outplayed the veteran team of Keck's, twice the Crimson, baffling the Jungleers with a perfect combination of line plays and forward passes swept down the field only to miss a touchdown by the barest margin each time, and once within their own five-yard line the Red Jerseyed defence threw back four times in succession and held for downs the Tiger backs as they stormed at the Crimson line...
...great majority of the students appreciate the value of the general examination: they realize, too, that improvements in the plan are being made each year. But in a spirit of constructive criticism they object to a system which sets a premium upon the barest skeleton of correlated fact and gives no times for careful thought and planning. If the new examinations are to be a test of general knowledge,--they should eliminate chance by giving the student enough time to show how much he knows...