Word: baring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bare, new offices of Fox Securities Corp., No. 729 Seventh Ave., Manhattan, sat last week Banker David Abraham Brown and discussed the financial difficulties of his great & good friend William Fox. Banker Brown is Chairman of the Broadway National Bank & Trust Co. He is best known as a fund-raiser for worthy Jewish causes, most recently as Chairman of the Palestine Emergency Relief fund. Henry Ford, onetime Jew-baiter, is his good friend, and was one of 2,000 guests at a testimonial dinner given when Banker Brown moved from Detroit to Manhattan (TIME, June 3). For 17 years...
From wall to wall the little trapped ball, hard as a modern golf ball, smaller than a modern baseball-a Turk's head of plaited rubber strips sewn in a membrane of goat-skin-flew so hard that it hurt bare hands. The players took to wearing gloves, then invented and strapped to their throwing wrists a long shallow wicker basket (called cesta). hooked like a giant's fingernail. The length of the throwing arc added speed to the little ball, heightened the game's excitement, sent it back across the ocean with other Spanish improvements...
After Magistrate Vitale and friends had feasted, sung and speechified, there were footfalls on the stairs. Seven men entered the room and held up the crowd. One of the gunmen had a handkerchief over his face and carried two revolvers; the others worked with faces bare and bland. They acquired some $5,000 worth of cash and jewelry and several firearms. They met no resistance at all from Police Detective Arthur C. Johnson, an imposing fellow who had held that position for 17 years and thrice been recommended for bravery. His gun was one of those taken away...
...effect would be four times as powerful. If, as the physicists hope, they can load the mercury ions five or six times, they expect to get the equivalent of five or six million volts, wherefrom rays could penetrate the thickest man-made utensil, could pop atoms open, perhaps lay bare the essentials of all Matter...
...summary: HARVARD TORONTO Wood, Cross, l.w. r.w. Harley, Marshall Putnam, Harding, c. Stewart, Murray, Bell Stulles, Lakin, Holbrook, r.w. l.w. McMullen Bat helder, Cunningham, l.d. r.d. Whitehead, Dewat Garrison, r.d. l.d. Paul Draper, Ellis, g. g. Le Bare...