Word: bare
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...games of other seasons. It was played on a strange field almost unheralded and unattended. There was no squad of forty or fifty men to come dashing on the field from the locker building, led by a Brickley or a Mahan. No staff of coaches and managers followed. A bare squad of twenty-two men, with one coach and one manager, was all there was no cheer from the Harvard stands met it, for there was no Harvard stand. The red jerseys and stockings were all that distinguished it to the ordinary observer...
...must come as a satisfaction to all Americans to know that the French Commission has arrived safely on its native soil. It was only a bare twelve days ago that we welcomed the Commission, and notably Marshal Joffre, to Harvard with all the honor and all the friendship that we might show...
...press with large optimism proclaimed that the issue would be oversubscribed many times in a very few weeks. Were we not the richest nation on the earth, with wealth estimated at two hundred billions? An absolutely inconceivable amount even to the most universal mind. The loan represented a bare one per cent of our amazing resources. The press declared our banks would be crowded with eager buyers...
Pecuniary losses may be recuperated. Life may not. Surely those who complain must feel small of heart, knowing they are unwilling to lose a bare fraction of their wealth where other less selfish men are giving their very...
...hoped that enough funds may be collected here to be presented to Marshal Joffre on his arrival that many thousands of these unwilling and unsharing victims of the war may be relieved from the bare threat of lack of nourishment. Harvard is asked to do its share. Our share can be nothing less than the furthest dollar which we may spare from other and less vital needs. We may never give back to those children the happiness that they have lost, nor abate their desolation in one degree. Yet we may from our abundance spare enough to keep them from...