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Word: barely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tommy gun in each hand and enough knives and bayonets stuck in his belt to start a hardware store; he has not only wiped out the battalion singlehanded, and held the bridge that saved his division from annihilation, but he killed the last 180 Japanese with his well-manicured bare hands, and has stopped twice in battle to make a five-minute oration on the Four Freedoms to an invisible audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 11, 1944 | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

...Reader Dale not bare his teeth. If there is any print-eating to be done, TIME'S Army & Navy Editor will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 11, 1944 | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

...back in the small space of the upside-down cockpit. His feet disappeared somewhere in the jumble of dials and rubber pedals above him. His shirt was open and his chest was bare to the waist. He was smoking a cigaret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Limies Have Guts | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

...last two years of peace-despite rationing, shortages of men and goods, etc. The net shrinkage was from 3,340,000 U.S. firms at the time of Pearl Harbor to 2,840,000 at the end of last year. But an analysis of the casualties was brighter than the bare figures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LITTLE BUSINESS: Nine Lives | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

...Indians migrated so freely that sometimes when the Helmericks stopped at what the map marked as a large settlement they found only a few bare poles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yukon Honeymoon | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

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