Word: baring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ship leaves Boston she might proceed to New London for the Harvard-Yale boat races the next day and leave for Halifax from there. Owing to the heavy demands upon the time of the Wyoming all next summer and the difficulty of rearranging the itinerary, there is only a bare possiblity that this part of the program will be carried...
...thousands of women and children literally starving to death. We found hundreds of destitute families living in crudely constructed, bare, board shacks . . . (New York Daily News...
What Vincent Astor's new boat will cost is variously estimated, up to $2,000,000. She has nine staterooms, eight bathrooms. Her cruising radius is 12,000. Her speed 14½ miles per hour. She requires a crew of 38. Bare running expenses for such a boat are estimated at well over $100.000 a year. Entertainment expenses can easily run the year's budget...
...Perhaps that is why numerologists, crystal-gazers, table-tippers, ouija-board-pushers, rhythmical dancers and all-round yogis stop at nothing in time, space, mind or matter. Then there is the New World Water Cult, with rooms in New York, Philadelphia and Cleveland, whose members sit with their bare feet in hot water and with cold wet towels around their heads, concentrating on questions for the Water Master to answer...
...mind. Probably there was no book of etiquette at hand in his spare military headquarters. Possibly it would not have helped him anyway. A delicate question faced him. A great Democrat, he had no Christmas present for the greatest Democrat, President Woodrow Wilson. The shops around Luxembourg were bare. He particularly needed a notable present, different from anyone's else; intrinsically rare and of great value. He decided to give Mr. Wilson Kaiser Wilhelm...