Word: baring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Groton eight showed a slight edge over the second Freshman crew in defeating the latter by a bare quarter length yesterday afternoon. The course was a mile and an eighth...
...education by the incitement of patriotic pride. It is useless to deny an intention to " inculcate hatreds " when the purpose of education is made the inspiration of pride by reference to wars and enmities. And it is worse than useless to call the resulting attitude of mind "culture." The bare fact is that such a theory of education makes the school an agency of chauvinism, ignorance and prejudice. The Germans proved that point up to the hilt...
...bare baker's dozen of words, eked out by ample illustrative gesture, should keep a man alive. But, in cold weather his conversation might become dull, and his writing would always be extremely telegraphic. He picks up an adjective here and a verb there until he can talk rather fluently of the weather and politics. Indeed, such writers as Hobbes, Swift and Defoe won success on very few words...
...coal magnates answer this latter statement by saying that the investment in the coal industry is about $8 per ton of annual production, and that a bare 6 per cent on this investment would require a net profit of 48 cents a ton, or 20 cents more than the miners consider sufficient...
...been writing polite protests against the rule that freshmen must eat at the Commons, along with complaints about the quality and quantity of the food. Politeness availing nothing, they finally resorted to force and sabotage. Since they had not enough bread, they hurled what they had; since dishes were bare, they broke them. Finally they raised their Jolly Roger, a sign on which a skull and bones had been drawn with the epitaph underneath: "This man ate at Commons." While one must make liberal allowance for mob contagion and the human weakness for kicking, yet when five hundred students join...