Word: barest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dever, a young, ambitious Irishman eight years out of law school, plunged into the case side by side with the Securities Division of the Massachusetts Public Utilities Commission. Slowly, day by day, they began unraveling the business affairs of Bowen Tufts, so complicated that by last week only the barest outline of events was possible. Their findings to date...
Strangely both Nanking and Tokyo treated this latest incident with icy calm. After one day of flaming headlines, the Tokyo Press limited all descriptions of the fighting in Chahar to the barest of brief dispatches. Nanking, instead of screaming in the customary Chinese manner about the Rape of Chahar, sent out unofficial bulletins to announce that the entire "border dispute" was a "local affair," that peace had been restored, that there was nothing to worry about...
Whatever the cause, the emergency is real. Whatever the extravagances of the past, money is now needed to provide the barest minimum of education. Particularly is it needed in hard-pressed districts in the poorer states of the South which never could become extravagant. Even in the best of times the teachers there were underpaid and the school facilities inadequate. Unless the government comes to their aid, these schools will this year be able to provide terms of only a few weeks. And with relief funds flowing in such golden streams it would indeed seem wise to divert...
...flashes in the electrical display of God. In "Mourning Becomes Electra" the dramatist seemed to drift into a completely mechanistic attitude, at least to give expression to such a concept. "Days Without End" is indeed a modern miracle play, if we consider this undercurrent attitude even in its barest outline...
German newspapers were compelled to suppress all but the barest news of the Church crisis and Reichsbischof Müller flatly refused to discuss it with U. S. correspondents. "Tell American churchgoers," said he, "that in our Church the Gospel will naturally remain as a foundation on which the message of Christ will rest." Meanwhile Storm Troops descended on the parishes of many non-Nazi pastors, herded several off to prison camps...