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Word: barely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those Popular Front days, Organizer Dennis operated from a bare, dirty, guarded office over the Oneida Restaurant at 113 East Wells Street, Milwaukee. His methods and objectives were multifarious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Little Commissar | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

Wooden Guns. Exact figures on Europe's military establishment were technically secret. But it was no secret to anyone that the Western European powers between them could put no more than a dozen poorly equipped, poorly organized combat divisions into the field, virtually bare of armor and effective air support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRATEGY: The Ramparts | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...almanac. This, of course, is where the fun should begin. But it doesn't. Bing riffles through his wonder-working stunts, jousts with Sir Launcelot (Henry Wilcox-son) and rescues King Arthur's beautiful niece (Rhonda Fleming) with his tongue conspicuously in his cheek. To underline his bare-faced parody of a second-rate Bing Crosby, he also sings a few typically Crosby tunes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 25, 1949 | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

Beyond the bare requirements there are drawbacks. There are a few really topnotch lecturers, and a high proportion of good scholars--but the two don't usually match; and there is a third category of men who don't rate high in either respect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Government . . . | 4/23/1949 | See Source »

This affair, which opens the two-month season a bare week from Saturday, is looked upon with some trepidation by Tom Bolles, the proverbially conservative coach...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Lining Them Up | 4/15/1949 | See Source »

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