Word: baring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feel that the actions of the Harvard-Radcliffe Graduate Student Council in the preparation of the discussion "Should Universities Be Investigated?" did irreparable harm to the cause of Harvard and other universities in the same position. By inviting Dirk Struik, the Council not only laid its flanks bare for outside attack, but also presented an intemperate extremist and a disappointing defender of academic freedom...
...trade school sort, in contrast to the courses designed to strengthen the muscles of the mind by challenging its interest and stimulating its exercise. The movements of history.....the problems of a dynamic social order, the curiosity that science arouses, are more effective to this end than memorizing bare facts. ......The general objection of educators is that the emphasis of ROTC is so exclusively on practical details of the "know how" to the neglect of the complimentary "know...
...scrabbling mine and mill town of Cannonsburg, Pa., where his father, Welsh-born John Llewellyn Price, worked as a roller in a tin mill when he wasn't striking for the old Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers. When the men were out, the cupboard was bare, and Bill Price early began piecing out the family income by running errands and clerking nights in a store. At 16, when his father died suddenly, Bill had to go to work in earnest. He learned shorthand, earned $50 a month as a secretary by day, and by night went...
...Republicans had bare control of both Houses. The Senate split, 48-47, and one who brought a chair to "sit in the middle of the aisle...
After a twelve-week warmup, the bare-stage version of Stephen Vincent Benét's John Brown's Body (TIME, Dec. 22) began its Broadway run last week. The show starring Judith Anderson, Tyrone Power and Raymond Massey, had already covered 14,000 miles, given 80 performances m 60 cities. Most of Manhattan's critics gave John Brown & Co. columns of raves. The dissenter: John Chapman, of the tabloid Daily News, recommended the show to those who "are looking for a nap. . . It was only duty which kept me from dozing through a large part...