Word: baring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover maintained an industrious silence last week in his big, bare office at the Department of Commerce. His friends were discreetly jubilant. First to swing from the draft-Coolidge movement to Mr. Hoover's support was Committeeman Rentfro Banton Creager, "Red Headed Rooster of the Rio Grande" (TIME, Dec. 12), representing 26 Texas delegates...
There exist about 8,500 Ford dealers. Their profit on each Ford they sell is 20%. (Dealers in other cars get 24% profit.) For six months Ford dealers have been clearing their show rooms of Model T Fords and parts. A fortnight ago all were bare. Last week most continued bare, for the Ford Motor Co. had prepared only about 550 new cars for exhibition. However its production will approximate 1,000 cars a week by January. (The company operates only five days a week.) The aim is 8,000 cars a week. Dealers will deliver very few cars...
...much point to that baffled breathlessness, that twitching of the limbs and lips, that broken laughter and word-fumbling by which Miss Lord intensifies hopelessness. O. P. Heggie, with pursed smile, elusive spectacles and amiable absentmindedness, is her dreamy father. In the epilog, kept at opposite ends of a bare table by her prison's regulations, they still try to pretend to gether, try to laugh "that such a thing should happen to people like...
...this in mind, the Forecast fortune has been staked on the issue of today's contest. He has bet that is Yale wins, it will be by less that a touchdown margin. Having scouted the Blue last week, I am enough impressed with their strength to concede them the bare possibility of a victory by a goal; but I refuse absolutely to grant them the superiority of a touchdown. If I'm wrong, you are all invited to a little party in Section 32, Row PP, right after the game. There will be refreshment's Joe Forecast will...
...about your O. M. [Order of Merit]. Of course it in no way represents your services in this War, for, let me tell you in case you don't know it, you, more than any other man, living or dead, you almost alone, won this war. That is the bare truth, the whole truth...