Word: barre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other Yardling bouts, Hollis' Dave McLean won by a fall from Apley's Archie Leyasmeyer in a 137 pound encounter. At the same weight, Matthews North's John Butcher took a fall of Apley's Myron Barr. The 147 pound class found two Matthews men, Ed Pasternack and Rock Norby, losing by falls to Apley's Dan Murphy and Massachusetts' Bob Wilbur, respectively...
...Canadian believes that he has solved the diagnostic problem in human intersex. All human cells, says Dr. Murray L. Barr of the University of Western Ontario, contain something called sex chromatin. It is easy to spot in females' cells, because there it is made from two husky X chromosomes. It is not seen in male cells, because they draw on only one X chromosome and a measly little Y chromosome...
...tiny specimen of outer skin, taken painlessly, is enough to show the true chromosomal sex of any individual. Dr. Barr told Toronto's Academy of Medicine. If doctors suspect a sex mixup in a baby, this test should be made at once, he urged, so that operations to straighten things out can be performed early. Even more important, the child can be reared from the start as a member of its rightful...
What to do about it? Adler, Hutchins and a band of dedicated fellow guerrillas -notably Stringfellow Barr, former president of St. John's College, Scott Buchanan, former dean of St. John's, and Mark Van Doren, English professor at Columbia-have answered long & loud: make U.S. education truly liberal. That means, according to Adler, that 1) American college professors must commit academic hara-kiri by giving up their specialized fields; they should be able to teach anything in the liberal arts; 2) the scientific method should stick to science, and leave to philosophy the job of determining matters...
...Clubs have argued appellate moot count cases at the Law School since 1820, and upon a bequest of the late James Barr Ames in 1911 these arguments became known as the Ames Competition. The two finalist tonight will terminate a three years competition which has involves over sixty other clubs...