Word: barely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Simultaneous with the blossoming of seersucker jackets, bare female legs, and other signs of spring in the Yard, Coach Bob Maddux's Varsity lacrosse team emerged from the gloom of Briggs Cage yesterday into their more natural surroundings on the Business School athletic field. The afternoon sun which covered the field did not extend so far as to shed excessive light on Crimson prospects. Aside from the general feeling among Maddux and his men that this year's team is sure to be superior to the wartime aggregation of last spring, the crystal ball remains definitely clouded...
...Boston newspaperman from way back, Louis M. Lyons, curator of Harvard's Foundation, released a cool headed analysis last week of Boston's politics its prejudices and its traditions--upon a city whose newspapers were seething with tales of bare-faced bribery and graft. When James S. Coffee stood up before a license hearing in the Council and affirmed, "Sure I'll take a buck," the probe was on. Before it was over, citizens knew that Coffee would take three thousand bucks and that he was not alone. Peculiar to Boston, Lyons points out in Vanguard Press' anthology, "Our Fair...
...still life: he wanted to paint nothing except people. His mother, when she came home from her work as a charwoman, posed for Edouard: sometimes as the Madonna, draped in a shabby dressing gown, and sometimes in the nude. They worked in one of the family's two bare rooms, with Edouard's canvas propped against a suitcase on the dinner table...
Aspiring House grapplers will get an opportunity to bare their brawn at an inter-House wrestling tournament next week, intramural director Adolf Samborski announced today. Entries in eight classes ranging from 121 pounds to unlimited will be accepted...
...contemplating the gaping hole in the argyle sock, where he was about to commit his bare foot, when his reveries were interrupted by a stealthy knock at the door. "It's open," he purred, in the renowned mellow 100 proof tone, as a mufflered figure sidled in, peering in both directions over the upturned label of a secondhand Brooks Brothers overcoat...