Word: baring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bare facts of the Irish boundary dispute are as follows...
...spite of the superficial lightness of his indictment that "young men are not going to lay bare their hearts, or give expression to convictions that are very sacred, if women are sitting promiscuously about in the classroom," Mr. Brown's analysis contains a very perceptible measure of truth. Not even the years which a majority of college students have spent in coeducational secondary schools can wholly obliterate for some a feeling of repressive embarrassment in the presence of women as fellow students...
Europe. Complete Stone Age village was laid bare near Vannes on the coast of Brittany, when a recent tidal wave swept away the sand. French archeologists are excited over the prospect of further revelations...
...most vital. The secondary schools,--one may cautiously generalize,--care for little besides preparing, students to pass College Board--examinations. No improvement can reasonably be expected to germinate there. And the primary schools, overloaded as they are with perfectly irresponsible pupils into whom dispairing teachers seek to drill the bare rudiments, cannot be looked to for any spontaneous advance...
Maeterlinck is well-known as an amateur boxer and it was suggested that instead of pistols and coffee, he would insist on ten rounds and bare knuckles...