Word: baring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pianos struck the keynote simply from a darkened theatre pit one afternoon last week. On a stage bare of properties the current dance season began in Manhattan, not with the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe of glamorous traditions and virtuoso performers, not with any of the U. S. moderns struggling to express themselves by gymnastic abstractions, but with performances designed by Kurt Jooss, a 35-year-old German whose ballets, scorning any set technique, tell stories...
...eventually marries her. But as he watches her with his brother he begins to believe that they have both tricked him, becomes insanely jealous of a woman he does not love, plunges into wild dissipation, beats his wife until his confusions are ended when Andrew kills him with his bare hands...
...inner tube, in which he cut a square-inch aperture. Slipping his arm into the sleeve, Professor Crew thrust it into the 40 m.p.h. blast blown through a sunless wind-tunnel ordinarily used for testing model airplanes. During a half-hour exposure to the blast, the square-inch of bare skin "exhibited ''goose-flesh' but at no subsequent time was there the slightest evidence of reddening or chapping of the exposed area of skin," reported Professor Crew...
...regulations like chapel attendance, which, as Dean Sperry pointed out, was abolished just fifty years ago, have been cut to the minimum. In spite of the reputed difficulties of scholastic work now as against the "good old days," even Mr. Perkins was willing to admit that compliance with the bare regulations would leave all but the poorest student free spend most of his time as he chose...
...Maine having a good time "before she was ninety" and he in New York working over a drafting table from one year's end to the other. Myrna Loy gradually assumed a dual personality; that of the understanding, steadfast wife, and that of the quasi-loyal wife who lays bare all her domestic troubles to a male friend when she should have kept them religiously to herself. The stock market crash in 1929 wiped out all his money, and the depression left him without a job. Through it all we could see no waning in his affection for her, even...