Word: baring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once again Harvard men have incurred the dire disapprobation of Cambridge collegiate, femininity, and this time the girls of Radcliffe, Sargent, and Miss Leslie's, offended, embarrassed, shocked, have resorted to Cambridge police. For they have endured, even unto the breaking point, the flaunting of the hirsute adornment of bare masculine legs by Harvard men while sipping tea in the refined atmosphere of an elite Harvard Square tea shoppe. According to them the atmosphere of their favorite afternoon rendez-vous is destroyed by half-dressed athletes and, with appropriate modesty and blushes, they insist that hairy nether limbs be confined...
...done, officials of the Exchange made an announcement bare and ominous ?the amount of money loaned to brokers had risen to $4,432,907,321, a sum so vast that brokers slept uneasily, fearing that money vendors might suddenly demand repayment of loans or blandly ask for higher interest payments...
...direction which it now appears every endowed educational institution must ultimately take, has been announced by Yale University in the form of an undergraduate tuition increase. Effective next fall the fee will be four hundred dollars a year, an increase of fifty dollars. A significant item in the bare notice of this step as reported in the press, is the fact that "additional appropriations will be made to prevent the increase from adding to the financial burdens of the self-supporting students...
...making possible the refinement of living, but the specialist impervious to every other interest who burrows until he unearth his treasure. His importance to society, his conception of his own raison d'etre, hang on his search. And while his undergraduate, training can not have left him bare of all general knowledge, the necessity of keeping apace or in advance of the rush of discovery grants no opportunity for attention, however desirable, to other learning. But the faculty of being perfectly dull is an luborn talent, and not the result of training...
...curtain rises, Dr. Palely is apprehended walking slowly in a circle within a bare, white-washed room. In the center of the circle upon a swivel chair sits a Wistful Youth. In his mouth is firmly embedded a large wooden bath thermometer. After a lapse of about three minutes Dr. Palely speaks...