Word: baring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sniping at Surrogate Valin last week, Mr. & Mrs. Dionne's vaudeville manager charged: "There would be none of this bare nakedness and pictures which disgrace the quintuplets if their parents were in charge-none of this nudism...
...certainly have been standing, polite but immovable, beside the oblivious couple. It is unfortunate that the picture of this interested audience cannot by any effort of the will be effaced from the reader's imagination once it has occurred to him, which mars the otherwise sustained effect of simple, bare tragedy which Mr. Strauss imparts to the story of the girl's ultimate betrayal
...more of direct imparting of knowledge--higher education has tended toward the other and slower procedure. For example, instead of the older practice of lectures and reading text-books, the law schools began sixty years ago to use the case method of instruction--much slower so far as the bare learning of legal principles by sheer memory is concerned, but much more effective in teaching law students to think. And the system has spread from school to school until it has now been adopted almost everywhere in America...
...sincere or not in his fight rests solely with himself and time In either case he has offered a mental aspirin. In the so-called masses in the form of the proverbial ship on their horizon, which horizon had been up until his initial "Share-the-Wealth" speech. bare of any indication of rescue from the barren beach of want and suffering...
...hawk's shadow rippled across the tops of the trees and blotted the bars of the sun on the brook. It flickered for a second on the little girl's bare feet and was gone. And again it swerved over and disappeared. Back in the meadow, something swooped down and the thin, quivering squeal of a field mouse hung in the hot, stagnant air and was stifled...