Word: barely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard men are not exactly furry rodents with whiskers and the City of Cambridge never floated--not even its assets--but by Saturday evening all such subtle distinctions will be forgotten. Cambridge will be as bare of students as the Titanic was of rats...
...average three room suite at Harvard now rents at close to $160 with bare furnishings. They put three young men into it which means that for 16 weeks the College receives $480. That's $120 a month for three rooms in a tax-free building. Recently you raised my four and one half room (including modern kitchen) apartment from $100 to $115 and I complained. In the light of conditions at Harvard I now see how well off I am in contrast to the students (even if they do get a view of the Charles) at our leading educational institution...
...perhaps some of the romantic glow assumed by the Gilbert and Sullivan operas during the lean years tended to disappear when they were seen again. Gilbert and Sullivan, despite the somewhat mystical reputation which time has given them, were no more consistent than any creative personalities, and there are bare spets and distinctly less interesting operas among their work...
...eaten. Since that time, man has come to abhor the vacuum of space: he still talks of "setting the table," but in fact his furniture is almost as stable as the four walls which surround it, and much more important. Where once the human hand created the bare minimum, the machine now creates the dressy maximum...
...bare dare fare pare rare ? from care hare mare tare ware yare