Word: barely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have been boosted an average of about 50%. . . . The fallacy of this is evident when one realizes that the cost of food alone has gone up about 80%. This year the average worker has bought less goods, and has more debts than ever, just in trying to satisfy the bare necessities of life...
...tons of steel (half of it for Army camps and bases); it is eating up 12% of the U.S.'s steel-plate capacity, 36% of its structural steel shapes. But while almost every other kind of productive capacity in the U.S. was ballooning, steel capacity was increased a bare...
...cruelly bare and insufficient evidence visible to the non-Russian world, Timoshenko has not consistently distinguished himself in the war with Hitler. His concrete achievements: the heroic defense of Smolensk, which gave Moscow time to prepare its still unbreached defenses, and the recapture of Rostov last November. But, whether the outcome was good or ill, Timoshenko with his peasant hardiness never shifted blame or credit. Said he to his troops before Rostov last year, when the world tended to believe (with Hitler) that the Russian winter alone was stopping the Germans: "Neither rain nor snow is going...
...parsons attended lectures religiously, listened intently, made reams of notes during morning, afternoon and evening lectures. They studied their texts in bare dormitory rooms or argued heatedly in little knots in the hallway...
...June the U.S. imported 909,000 bags of coffee, 24% less than in June 1941. (The U.S. guzzles well over 1,000,000 bags monthly, and U.S. stocks are down around 2,500,000 bags-a bare two months supply...