Word: barely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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March of the Half-Dead. Some of the prisoners ran on bare, swollen feet out through the main gate toward the hill which the raiders pointed out to them. Some of them in hysteria tried to embrace and kiss their rescuers. Some of them, bedridden, found themselves hoisted pickaback by sweating soldiers...
Encouraging as are the sings of an emergence from the heavy stress on sciences, comparison with 1932, a peacetime year selected at random, shows that the revival in liberal arts education still has far to go if it is ever to return to prewar proportions. A bare 15.4 percent of the Class of 1932 chose to major in the natural sciences, while an overwhelming 43.4 percent of the present Freshmen will concentrate in sciences of some sort...
...some doubt that Henry Wallace would make the grade at all. He seemed certain to be shorn of the powers of Federal Loan Administrator. And the Commerce Committee, by a 14-to-5 vote, had also adopted an unfavorable report on his nomination for Commerce Secretary. There was a bare chance he might win confirmation in the full Senate, but his foes stoutly believed they had him licked...
During his stay in the bare, barred "juvenile tank" of Seattle's King County Jail, 16-year-old John Emberg often wished he were dead. He was a dull, shy, slack-chinned boy. When a tough red head named Chuck Thomas forced other boys to fight him, he backed away, posturing timidly. When he was beaten with shoes and belts, he wept...
Cool, retiring Georgia O'Keeffe's shows are hung by her husband, Photographer-Art Dealer Alfred Stieglitz, in an ascetically bare 17th-floor office building suite. Dealer Stieglitz also handles all O'Keeffe sales; these are usually accompanied by a resounding clang of the cash register. O'Keeffe oils bring between $3-4,000. Record: $10,000, in 1937, for an untitled flower piece bought by Manhattan Beautician Elizabeth Arden...