Word: baring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beginning of the present century, the Yard was well filled with all sorts of trees--pines, oaks, ashes, elms, and many others. Around 1910 a destructive invasion of leopard moths began. The situation became serious; all the historic trees and shrubbery were slowly succumbing. The Yard looked very bare in 1914, when a program of replanting and rearranging went into effect. No pine trees can grow any longer in the Yard, because there is too much soot and dirt in the air. During the Great War, the University transplanted many good-sized elms from the countryside around Boston...
...Moriz Rosenthal boasts that he can tear a pack of cards in half, break an iron horseshoe with his bare hands, snap a taut piano string with one blow of his index finger, lift a 200-lb. weight over his head. Long a student of jujitsu, he took up boxing in his 60s, has trained for several months under the guidance of Welsh Heavyweight Tommy Farr...
...Astronomer Partridge in one of the greatest hoaxes of the time. He outraged prim Queen Anne by his vulgarity in "The Tale of a Tub" which cost him preferment. But his "Drapier's Letters" made him beloved of the Irish, which was ample compensation. His "Voyage to Lilliput" laid bare society in all its smallness and pettiness; his "Voyage to Brobdingnag" magnified its faults to gigantic, revealing, revolting stature. He held up an exaggerating mirror to the English public's face and showed them a visage as distorted as a Coney Island reflection. His pen was undoubtedly the most feared...
Daily in the dingy caucus room of the old House Office Building railroad presidents laid bare the shambles of railroad economics, railroad labor representatives snarled that labor was not to blame, should not pay the penalty. Meanwhile, the rival groups issued reams of charts, figures and opinions. Apex of the managements' campaign was a nationwide splash of advertising. Apex for labor was a 482-page, clothbound book (each copy stamped with the recipient's name in gold letters) dedicated to Franklin Roosevelt and titled Main Street-Not Wall Street. Last week "Main Street...
...timidly knock on the door and ask in a small voice if Vag had anything for him. Vag seldom did. And he has nothing for him now except a growing respect for this little man who manages to be so dignified about an undignified business. His store is bare now, and all the stuff has been moved elsewhere--to new a quarters eastward, but still "on the Avenue." Workmen are now changing and rebuilding the front of the old place into something gaudy and shiny. And the warm solemnity of Max Keezer is gone from the Square...