Word: baring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both have, in a sense, begun to study each other's case books. For the legal contents at Harvard once was bare of anything that might set law in its economic and social contexts. Law was viewed as something static--the lawyer was a mere technician who had to discover a prescribed set of rules known as the law. The case study method, developed by Dean Langdell in 1870, was central to Harvard's study of law, and most law schools throughout the country have since adopted it. Studying decisions of the past helped the lawyer or judge to find...
...governor was Democrat George M. Leader, 36, a young man whom few outside of his home York County had ever heard of until eight months ago. On top of that, the state house of representatives went Democratic 111 to 99, and the state senate returned a bare Republican majority (27-23). Never before-not even when fun-loving George H. Earle rode the tidal crest of the New Deal wave in 1934 -had Democrats come so close to making a clean sweep in Harrisburg...
What Cleveland's show proved to the hilt was that China's greatest artists were also sages, and that their brushes could not only pierce but also lay bare, with a few swift strokes of intuition, the "principles" of nature. Rocks become bones of Earth itself; rivers become her blood, trees her hair, and everything moves in a rhythm deeper than man's scurry...
...dawn two army ambulances drove onto the regimental firing range, and the ten men, their hands bound, stepped out on trembling feet, looked across the bare, floodlit ground and saw ten wooden posts newly erected before a high mud wall. Guards tied each man to his post. "Don't hurt me," said Major Atarod. "I'll be quiet now." "What do you mean, brother?" smiled Colonel Siamak. "It's finished." He turned to the guards tying him to his post and said: "If we had succeeded, we'd have been less tactful with...
Rumors that the Foreign Students' center has shifted quarters to Claverly spread like wildfire yesterday with the appearance of strange, oriental inscriptions on the building's walls. Long a visual sounding board for polylingual dilettantes, the wall has been bare since last year...