Word: barely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...corollary of this was that Turkey's Aegean flank was bare. Turkey's Black Sea flank was also bare now that Germany controlled the entire length of the Danube. So giant pincers on Turkey (see map) seemed to be in the blueprints. It might be no more than political pincers, to make Turkey come to terms. After the Balkan fight, Turkey might be induced to give in. But if necessary, the great pincers might be used militarily...
...Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street (Victor album; $2). For radio listeners to the mock-pompous announcements and the excellent hot playing of "Dr. Henry Levine and his Bare footed Dixieland Philharmonic" and "Maestro Paul Laval and his Woodwindy...
...risen less than one-third, and the gap between the two is the widest ever (see chart). Normally, low inventories are a sign of smart merchandising, meaning faster turnover, fresher and more attractive goods. In 1941, low inventories are also a danger signal. If storekeepers keep their shelves so bare in the face of a still soaring demand, they may soon awake to find themselves forced to buy in a priorities-ridden seller's market, bidding prices up. The fear that prices will soon be higher has recently gripped businessmen, Government men and consumers alike. Consumers have expressed their...
...vague hope in some utopian revolution," and it is hard to disagree with him, much as one might like to. Maybe it makes me an undemocrat too--but as I see it the moral of the Spanish struggle is not that the democratic forces, the people, turned their bare breasts against the fascist tanks, but that the people lost. Dutch students may riot, yet Hitler crushes Holland with barely a contemptuous glance in their direction. You do not win this war by snowballing brown-shirted legions, as the Czech people did, not so long ago; you win by bombing...
...Specifications: single men, 21-to-26, with at least two years of college. Through the summer and fall the students got their seagoing foundation in ships of the Atlantic Fleet: the battleships Arkansas and New York, cruisers Quincy, Tuscaloosa, Wichita, Vincennes. After 25 days at sea they had the bare rudiments of navigation, gunnery, communications and seamanship, had also learned how to scrub their clothes white, how to face aft when they came over the side and salute the quarterdeck (where in early navies the ships carried their shrines and pagan altars). Rest of the education is being provided this...