Word: bare
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...production of the modern industrial world consists of two classes of articles: essentials and luxuries. Before the war the latter were very common. They are now becoming more scarce, as nations realize that they must economize and live on the bare necessaries of existence. The war has made economy the watch-word of human actions. The luxuries and non-essentials of society must be curtailed so that raw materials will not be drawn away from more useful channels of war production and so that labor will not be engaged in producing articles of no immediate value. The complexity of modern...
...college education is only too often misunderstood by the undergraduate to mean the bare knowledge of the contents of the books that are read and the assimilation of the facts that are presented in the class room. Others, now in the minority, take the opposite view that the things to be sought at college lie totally without the class room...
...country goes to its very roots, searches out the good and evil and lays them bare, that its citizens may judge their own worth. Our country has been no exception to the rule. Since the Declaration of War a year ago, the United States has undergone the acid test. And how has she stood it? Truthfully, we may answer: well. Our youths have flocked from every state, willing, at least in spirit; our efforts to make up for years of unpreparedness have been honest, though sometimes ineffectual; and, taken all in all, our national spirit has been praiseworthy...
...need for books. From the barracks of Camp Devens to the Y. M. C. A. Huts on the Chemin des Dames front, all must be supplied. Military life is, at times, extremely boresome; our soldiers must have some means of mental relaxation. A Y. M. C. A. Hut bare of books is a dull and uninteresting object; with books an atmosphere of ease and homelikeness is obtained, that seems so good to a tired soldier...
...taken to task by a writer who does not bother to draw on his gloves. He has waded right in and dealt his blow with a bare fist. One thing is certain--he has his opinions and these are to be regarded. But we hardly think our enthusiastic comment of yesterday morning on the British capture of Jerusalem calls for such a Philippic. Had we been presenting a detailed study of the taking of Jerusalem and its effect upon the world, we should have been guilty of a grave omission in making no mention of the Jewish people...