Word: barely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legislation enacted to take its place. In that case the United States would have to depend on International Law to protect its neutrality; what is International law has best been described by Charles A. Beard-"a veritable jumble of claims, assertions . . . and hot contentions." These then are the bare facts. In themselves they point in no definite direction, yet they must underlie any valid opinion on the neutrality issue...
Last week the Senate's Great Inconsistent strolled daily from his ground-floor office in the Senate Office Building to his bare workroom hideaway in the Capitol, his shadow falling black on the worn paving...
...lower bracket, the form favorite was Bromwich, the two-hander who plays tennis like a man batting out fungoes. In the quarter-final he easily dismissed Gil Hunt, the Washington, D. C. mathematician who sometimes uses a tennis court to demonstrate how he can balance a pencil on his bare toes. But in Jack's next match, he faced no eccentric pushover. He ran up against a 19-year-old, six-foot-one Golden Boy from California, unseeded and unsung, but the nearest thing to full Titan stature U. S. tennis has seen this season. Sidney Welby Van Horn...
Though sad, the stories do not make the reader cry; though funny, they do not make him laugh; cumulatively they make him nervous. The bare, observant technique draws attention to itself and to its occasional flaws (the story Trouble in 1949 hinges on an exchange of car keys for which the author makes no provision). Possibly two prides-the Irishman's and the craftsman's-conspire to allow O'Hara no ambitious flops. But readers who are not reporters will wonder how anyone can write so well and yet so rarely try to write better...
...treasures. Some were stored behind steel walls in the Bank of France; others were carted off to hiding places in the country. Rare books and manuscripts were spirited away from shelves of the National Library; the Chateau de Versailles and the Trianons, stripped of their furnishings, lay empty and bare. Cathedral cities heard the tattoo on wood as scaffoldings went up. From Chartres' Cathedral (one mile distant from a great military airport), the stained-glass windows fired in the Thirteenth Century were lifted down to safety...