Word: baring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seem, is back to stay. Encouraged by the example of certain irreproachable members of the Faculty and the clever advertisements of a local renting agency, Cantabridgians have given' the ancient two-wheeled, leather-saddled mode of transportation a fling which has developed carmarks of permanency. The vast numbers of bare-kneed girls, uncoated college students, and towsic-headed youngsters who cycle daily render the pleasure of wheeling an unquestionable quantity. The one great question which perplexes the minds of prospective cyclists is a place to cycle...
...produce. But there is a hitch. This lovely greensward is under the jurisdiction of the hard-hearted Metropolitan District Police. Every afternoon the men in gray swoop down in Neon-lighted cars or rude motorcycles and drive the pleasure seekers from the grass. There are no exceptions. The loveliest bare kneed girl from the halls of Radcliffe, the most pitiful youngster, the most loquacious college boy, all on bicycles are as unwelcome as an epidemic of German Measles. Why should this be? What barm do the cyclists do? What dangers do they bring with them? Can the Metropolitan District Police...
With the tape a bare hundred yards away, however, Playfair surged by Woodland in a magnificent sprint. Increasing the gap with every stride, Harvard's captain broke the tape twenty-five yards ahead of his opponent, furnishing an almost precise duplicate of his victory over Bonthron in 1933, when Playfair overtook Princeton's ace runner some eighty yards from the tape, to lead the Mikkolamen to victory...
...come back, sunburned and hearty, ready to tackle a great many things," boomed President Roosevelt last week to 15,000 whooping South Carolinians gathered on the bare grounds of The Citadel, State military college at Charleston. "I am glad to find on the South Atlantic Coast evidences of what I saw on my trip across the country. . . . Yes. we are on the way back-not by mere chance, not by a turn of the cycle. We are coming back more soundly than ever before because we planned it that way, and don't let anybody tell you differently...
President Roosevelt and the New Deal are now disapproved by 62% of the nation-at-large, have lost ground in every section of the country-including AAA land-since last year and are favored in the Solid South only by a bare 2% margin...