Word: baring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edge of the World (Joe Rock). Documentary treatment of life on the bare, spray-soaked Scotch island of Foula, proving again, with superb views of Foula's cliff-scrambling denizens, that human existence is most photogenic where it is least cosy...
Originally called pelota (ball) and played with the bare hand against church walls in the Basque country three centuries ago, the game gradually evolved until three concrete walls were used instead of one, and a cesta (wicker basket shaped like a pelican's lower bill) was strapped onto the wrist to protect the hand from the sting of the fast-moving little pelota (hard as a golf ball and a little smaller than a baseball). Cubans imported the sport in 1900, called it jai alai for no other reason than that it was played at an arena in Havana...
...milk. On a leave of absence from his teaching job he takes on the post of special prosecutor, administers it with long-suffering innocence. But the time comes when he loses patience with the local hoodlums, takes off his coat, licks the daylights out of them with his bare fists. When his sabbatical year is over and he goes absently back to law school, the rackets are broken and he has beaten up about everyone in sight...
...ingots worth $10,000,000. Some of the gold was to pay off the English army fighting the French in Holland; the rest was to soothe a banking panic in Hamburg. Half her cargo was insured with Lloyd's. In the North Sea a storm hit her. With bare poles she ran before the wind, struck on the island of Terschelling at the mouth of the Zuider Zee, and sank in 50 feet of water...
...northeast corner of Utah, on a bare ridge of the desolate Uinta Mountains, diggers discovered the fossil remains of several dinosaurs ("terrible lizards"). The U. S. Government set apart 80 acres at the site, named it Dinosaur National Monument, recently began building a museum. Last week the Department of the Interior announced that, by proclamation of the President, the monument had been enlarged: to its present 80 acres were added 318 square miles of Utah and northwestern Colorado, making Dinosaur National Monument practically a national park. In it, tourists will not for some time see dinosaurs. The only complete specimens...