Word: baring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...needles of the conifers and leaves of the deciduous trees are of sheet copper. Sore at heart that I am so empty-headed on nature. Watch the workmen attach the needles and leaves to a wire, first twisting each into boughs. Many single wires are twisted for the bare branches of other trees. Hardwood trees. One man making figures of wax for the big model; leaves them naked. Musculature must be correct before they can be clothed. To a corner to examine the unfinished model. Its plastic terrain has been completed and part of the surface painted. Trees have been...
...believe, and instruct all my service men, that skis should be cleaned down to the bare wood, which must be absolutely dry. Then after several applications of oil have been absorbed. Klister should be burned in with a blow torch. This completes the base and the ski is ready...
...photograph inscribed. 'To my old side kick," signed "Franklin Roosevelt." He declined the job of Ambassador to Russia, or to Italy, or of Governor General of the Philippines, and elected in 1918 to run for Senator in Wisconsin. He was beaten by Republican Irvine Lenroot by a bare 2,500. So he returned to Washington to be a corporation lawyer (expert on the anti-trust laws) and "private diplomat...
...election day Erie County's 179,000 citizens elected him by a bare majority of 303 votes, trailing his ticket. He did a good job as sheriff. He cleaned out graft in the dissolute county jail and made himself unpopular with local politicians, but misfortune lay in store...
...rule bears an unfortunate resemblance to a mosquito. It is not a large animal, but after being irritated for a sufficient length of time, the tormented soul would cheerfully attack a lion with his bare hands to provide an outlet for his spleen. The rule, of course, works especial hardship upon the students rooming alone, but its nuisance value is appreciated even by men with several roommates...