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Word: barest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some of these "beginners" improved so much that they won places on the starting team. Buddy Linn's aggressiveness, for example, pulled him up from the third to the first midfield, and Ted Sexton is a fixture on defense. Both had only the barest knowledge of lacrosse before this year...

Author: By Hiller B. Zobel, | Title: Yardling Lacrosse Team Faces Yale | 5/19/1950 | See Source »

...your Jan. 30 report on Eric Partridge's Name into Word, you say: "[In 1759], France's finance minister, Etienne de Silhouette, introduced a series of such niggardly reforms that his name became a synonym for anything meager, and finally for a portrait in barest outline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 27, 1950 | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

...hated estate agent named Captain Charles Boycott. The method they used stuck, and so did boycott. A century before, France's finance minister, Etienne de Silhouette, introduced a series of such niggardly reforms that his name became a synonym for anything meager and finally for a portrait in barest outline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Report from the Jungle | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

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