Word: baring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...winner was Secretary of State Lewis O. Barrows, leading Democrat Dubord for the Governorship by 38,000 votes. Republican Congressional candidates were in the clear by 17,000 to 20,000 votes. But in Maine's prime race, Republican Senator White had beaten Democratic Governor Brann by a bare 4,000 plurality...
Into Acting Secretary of War Harry Hines Woodring's Washington office burst a man wearing red shorts, tennis shoes, an Indian war bonnet, a Kansas sunflower, with red paint daubed on his face and bare chest, a long white sack under his arm. Whooping, "Feathers instead of bullets," the visitor dumped 40 pounds of white feathers over Secretary Woodring's desk, scampered out before the Cabinet officer's return. Caught two hours later, still seminude, featherbrained Frank ("Woody") Hockaday, 50, onetime Kansas business man who now considers himself an apostle of peace, was lodged in the Gallinger...
...West: in the deserted fields tiny white pine seedlings are beginning to appear once more. In 1910 nature has restored the white pine forest: a portable sawmill has been set up and logs are being sledged through the snow to the railroad. By 1915 the hillside is once again bare and deserted. Fifteen years later, in Model No. 7, this twice cut-over hillside is again covered with trees but they are of a lean, weedy variety, fit only for cordwood unless drastic silviculture is practiced...
...private life during that period was as confused and chaotic as Dos Passos represents it, whether he has not overshot his mark in bringing so many of his characters to violent ends, so many of their hopes to tragic frustrations. But they can admire without reservation his narrative style, bare but not bleak, naturalistic but not dull, and his cunning blend of the literary and the colloquial. Dos Passos believes that a writer's modest job is to be an "architect of history." He never talks about creation in connection with his work. His job, he feels, is simply...
...longer can protect our families with an army. Our libraries, our museums and every one of the institutions we value most are laid bare to bombardments...