Word: barely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American standards the center is crude indeed. Its restroom is bare earth covered with canvas to keep out the rain. The washroom is one pipe of running water. The cloakroom will mend patched garments, or exchange better rags for those beyond mending. A free milk line serves half a bowlful to each child under five; then, if the child does not vomit from an unaccustomed stomach, he may have another half bowlful...
Tears & Tipoffs. Some of the star reports have not worn well. Reporter Henry Morton Stanley greets Explorer David Livingstone (1871) with his famed question and then, like any cub, confesses that he forgot everything else that was said or happened. Charlie Mitchell battles John L. Sullivan to bare-knuckled exhaustion in 39 rounds in France, but wide-eyed young Arthur Brisbane at the ringside (1888) spends many words on the picturesque surroundings and oddities of the French...
...classic Trilby devoted page after page to descriptions of Trilby's beautiful feet. In the novels of such romantics as Théophile Gautier, Restif de la Bretonne, Pierre Louÿs, Sacher-Masoch and Emile Zola, the heroine's feet are always lovely, frequently bare, and often kissed by the hero...
...traveled to Oxford, married Logan Pearsall Smith's sister, devoured-and rejected-the theories of Walter Pater. In Florence, he earned a bare living escorting tourists through the galleries until, in 1894, he published his Venetian Painters of the Renaissance, the first of four handy, brilliant guidebooks which netted him enough to buy a lavish 17th Century villa high above the Arno valley...
...years, Hargrave told the House Appropriations Committee, the U.S. had stockpiled less than 10% of the five-year goal set as a bare minimum for one year of total war. The reasons: 1) Congress had been laggard with money (it had supplied only 9% of the needed $3 billion funds); 2) the board itself had hesitated to deprive industry of any goods in short supply. Now, said Hargrave (who is president of Eastman Kodak Co.), the time had come to think less of industry and more of national security. Said he: "Industry can afford to undergo a certain amount...