Word: barely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German Department's personality kid was born thirty-four years ago in the rural outskirts of Norwich, Connecticut. He spent a delightful childhood playing among the railroad ties and stealing apples, and at an early age impressed his teachers with his wisdom and precocity. After class hours the bare-footed lad would work his way into a circus by watering the elephants, or would pensively watch the village blacksmith as he laid the foundations of the Weltanschung which he later passed to his students. His chief ambition at this time was to run around like his older brother, who belonged...
...search of the key to the diamond cache, she tames a lion with her bare hands to prove to the Lion Men that she is their goddess. Her headdress slips, revealing her mortality, and she is put up for sacrifice. Saved, she sneaks into the treasure cove by a back entrance, tumbles into a torture pit and is showered with a deadly...
...distilled from natural jungle oils) to Jack Stanton's plane (which will fly the diamonds to safety) in a grass basket suspended from a cable across a treacherous ravine, the basket's supports are shot away from the cable pulley. Undaunted, she grasps the pulley with her bare hands and completes the slide with her precious cargo...
...week's flood of first-quarter reports not all beer and skittles. True, combined profits of 345 top-flight companies (as tabulated by New York's National City Bank) were $377,372,000, up 17½% above 1940's first quarter, best since 1929. But this bare statistic hid many ands, ifs, buts...
Preparedness is a dead issue and the time for action has arrived. Dartmouth's headed south from the hill country armed to the teeth with a brigade of runners that has already turned back a Harvard onslaught in a mid-winter skirmish. It was, in bare facts, the worst track defeat the Crimson has suffered at Green hands...