Word: baring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago, the Tribune, big newspaper, did valuable work last week, as it did 13 years ago. It investigated the medical quacks, impostors, charlatans, "specialists," "old Docs," "health institutes" of the city, flayed them all and sundry, laid bare their foul and intricate inner workings. Chicago for a period was almost clean of these pseudo-medics, some of whom were regularly licensed physicians with debased practices. Many had been deprived of their onetime licenses for malpractice. Many were merely pornerastic laymen with a smattering of technical terminology. Of recent years they have been filtering back, spread-eagling their "specialties" on flamboyant...
...ages by the Nile and has since been covered every year with a thick layer of the Nile mud which the inundation spreads over the entire valley. The thick layer of sand which has covered the plateau for thousands of years with periodic intermissions when enterprising Egyptologists have laid bare the feet of the Sphinx, the Valley Temple of Khephren and the other monuments east of the pyramids. For many years there has persisted a belief that into the very bed rock of the plateau tombs were cut by the ancient rulers of the Nile who foresaw that the very...
...brother. He gets $1,500 yearly for devising the "daily dozen" phonograph records; the money educates two girls. The royalties of his 20 books, from his many surgical inventions, the fees from some 15,000 surgical operations and 277,000 patients in the sanitarium, all his income except a bare living have gone to support his lifelong doctrine of "not doctoring, not surgery, but education." He supports the Race Betterment Foundation, of which he is founder and president; the Battle Creek College which he created out of his sanitarium dietetic and nursing classes...
...Significance. Well informed observers opined that, while there is a bare chance of war, Turkey will in all probability be given sufficient commercial inducements to keep her quiet...
Unfortunately this interesting prelude had to be cut to a bare outline. Much or all of the humor in the disputes would be lost on a modern audience and the broadly humorous Balaam could for obvious resons not be introduced. Nevertheless, the five characters who remained of the Prophet Play, Isaiah Aaron, the Sibyl, the High Priest and St. Augustine, ably acted as they were, gave a sufficiently vivid impression of this characteristically German portion of the miracle...