Word: baring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...since the withdrawal of the late Professor George F. ("Rubber Dollar") Warren. Herman Oliphant, a law scholar before he was a financier and a liberal before he was a lawyer, was the prime advocate of the Undistributed Profits Tax, written into the tax law of 1936. All but the bare principle of that tax, which Franklin Roosevelt loved for its neat theory,* was killed by the last Congress in the 1938 tax bill, which brought a blast from Franklin Roosevelt and became law without his signature...
Chief Boston saved the record in his second overtime with a bare decision over the opponent's heavyweight in the day's closest match. Bill Daughaday's win in the 165 pound class stood out in the Varsity bout, especially as it was his second fall in two weeks. Outstanding Freshman match was Dick Thomas's in the 145 pound class, with a fall in under two minutes...
...closing days of Mr. La Follette's term, the State Supreme Court padlocked, in the State treasury, some $4,000,000 which this board was about to dole out to Civil War veterans and the teachers' retirement fund. This would have left the State treasury virtually bare when the new Governor took office...
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...olive branch of peace that Neville Chamberlain said he had brought back from Munich was little more than two months old last week and had already begun to lose its foliage. In fact, Mr. Chamberlain was clutching not much more than a bare stick as he watched the "appeased" Germans unleash their full brutality against the Jews and agitate revolution in Rumania (see p. 15), as he watched the Rumanians shoot and jail their own Nazis, as he watched two wars still going on while French and Italians were worried about another...