Word: baring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the snow frolic was ended, the Club voted to adjourn to its particular entry only to find the entry door bolted. Appeals to lighted windows were so intensified by the steadily dropping temperature that soon the door was opened from within, and the Polar Bare Club filed inside formulating a program of revenge...
Last week Winthrop House's Standish quadrangle witnessed the jamboree of the Polar Bare Club. This organization owes its inception to the scarcity of water a year ago last Christmas at the Mountaineering Club's hut on Mt. Washington...
...offender was usually offered the choice of being hanged. A severe flogging smashed a man; he was ill for weeks after it, and rarely recovered his self-respect if he originally had any good in him. The Regulations did certainly lay down that a dozen strokes on the bare back was to be the maximum, but nobody took any notice of the rule; two or three dozen were usual, a hundred common, while the infliction of 300 was by no means rare...
...Style" prefers to think of Louis Sullivan as the designer of the Carson Pirie Scott store in the heart of Chicago's Loop. It has a curvilinear corner entrance, great windows and very little on its upper façade except for the terra cotta bands following the bare outlines of the building's steel skeleton. It was begun in 1899. It might have been run up last year. Louis Sullivan had no truck with arid, literal structuralism. He was not afraid to use decoration, loaded many a building with rich, vital, original design which he drew from...
Mother is divided into 18 scenes, scenery for which is starkly expressionistic. Visible batteries of lights play on bare drops, while overhead a cinema screen is used to describe the locale or to exhibit significant photographs. In the wings, also visible, are two pianos. These accompany the cast as it sings revolutionary anthems at the conclusion of each episode...