Word: baring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hollow-boned hobgoblins weighed no more than a Thanksgiving turkey. In the older Jurassic period (130-170 million years ago) they were generally much smaller than in the Chalk Age. Digging into a desert mountain slope which once was seabottom, Dr. T. A. Stoyanow, University of Arizona geologist, laid bare a Jurassic pterosaur skeleton with a wingspread of some 28 feet, biggest specimen of that period ever found...
...will continue to dawdle through college only to find the shift to a graduate school equivalent to a step into another world. It is time that Harvard adopted a flexible policy geared to the various abilities of its many students, instead of to the slow speed of the underprepared, bare-pass...
...Mexico City's Chapultepec golf course, 7,500 ft. above sea level in the shadow of 17,888-ft. Popocatepetl, mature peons with bare feet and huge straw hats caddy for sleek young Mexican businessmen, Rockefeller Foundation doctors, energetic members of the embassies. At Chapultepec last week, in the qualifying round of Mexico's national amateur championship, scores by Mexico's best golfers and a dozen U. S. visitors were almost as high as Mexico's best golf course. The medal went to Percy J. Clifford, Mexican-born Briton, for a 75. Johnny Goodman of Omaha...
...cannot be put down to an effort of the King to suppress knowledge of his regard for Mrs. Simpson. The true explanation is that the British press is forbidden by a recently enacted law to make a public spectacle out of any divorce case. It may print only the bare facts of the legal proceedings...
...forget what that spirit is. Saturday's game saw the triumph of the amateur spirit over the milk diet, and sports writers will be busy all week comparing it to the battle of the Marne, to Thermopylae, to whatever overworked allusion they can conjure up to the triumph of bare courage in the face of overwhelming odds...