Word: bareness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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High heat and (perhaps mercifully) low light have dominated the debate on the wisdom of Harvard's quasi-conversion to coeducation. Is it perhaps not time to judge the matter, dispassionately, on the bare essentials...
...German who has been in the U.S. for five years. Last week he and his slender, 35-year-old wife, Brunhilda, were packed and read)' to sail to Germany. Then the State Department suddenly took back its permission for them to leave the U.S. In their almost bare $35-a-month New York City apartment, balding Gerhart Eisler spouted "ridiculous . . . stupid . . . nonsense" at the idea that he was a super-secret agent of Kremlin policy...
...Concepción, "slept" at the ancient Church of Los Descalzos. From balconies along the narrow streets women tossed flowers. Occasionally white doves flew up, released from paper cages by the devout, as the procession passed their doors. Behind the sweating litterbearers walked the penitents, with feet bare and sometimes bleeding, holding candles aloft and murmuring contritional prayers...
...suite becomes a place called home--one nook devoted to a Harvard man's study, and another, more frilly, corner plainly designed for a wife's reading, sewing, or gossiping. So far, however, spare moments of both husband and wife noticeably have been spent in interior decorating, as a bare room becomes a place to live...
...Brunswick's last service was a wartime job, just as her job is now a post-war job. As a Coast Guard barracks, the old hotel ago, had become a shabby, bare, dirty building, badly in need of new wiring and plumbing in places, as ell as a complete paint job. Kemtoned throughout in the interior, the rooms have been transformed by Harvard into green, yellow, and rose-colored suites; wiring was double-checked, new piping was installed; windows and doors were repaired, and the heating system was prepared for a New England winter...