Word: baring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Within a few minutes, it was clear to the world's markets that Mr. Callander's Board had confirmed the worst fears for U. S. Agriculture. The wheat fields were not quite so bare as private observers had calculated (TIME, Aug 6). But cotton-land had shrunk below the gloomiest private guesses. And the misadventures of corn were a sensation. In a month, 500,000,000 bu. of corn had disappeared from U. S. fields and the 1934 harvest was officially estimated as 1,600,000,000 bu. as against 2,300,000,000 bu. last year. The price...
...first two dams he poured out his unaffected enthusiasm for electric power: "I always believed in that old saying of 'More power to you'. . . . This country, which is looking pretty bare today, is going to be filled with the homes of men, women and children who will be making an honest livelihood...
...Pasadena, Calif., when Roy Dickson was barely old enough to walk, his father, a photographer, told him of adventures with snakes in India. The boy toddled off and caught one near his home. Thereafter he wandered through neighboring canyons, developed an uncanny instinct for locating snakes and lizards. Poisonous reptiles he catches with a forked stick, nonpoisonous ones with his bare hands. He has never been bitten. Last week Roy Dickson, 11, fondled a Western Ring snake, rarest of his collection, planned to go after a rattler next...
...last week's breakfast "Dr." Smith, a slick-scalped man who wears gold-rimmed glasses and winged collars, caressed the skull of his deceased patient, placed a cigaret between its spring-hung jaws, clacked its bare hands upon the table. In final flourish the nine naprapaths signed a scroll listing themselves as members of a Post-Mortem Club and willing their bones thereto. A notary public authenticated the- document for what it was worth...
Egypt. Excavating the buried city of Karanis, University of Michigan archeologists laid bare a squat building composed of four apartments or cells. Groping through the murky interior they came upon vast clay jars and moldering cloth bags containing some 26,000 bronze coins of local manufacture. The diggers surmised that this was the ancient bank whose existence they had suspected since finding elsewhere in the ruins a papyrus recording what seemed to be bank transactions. All the coins were dated prior to 296 A.D. In that year Roman Emperor Diocletian banned local coinage to introduce a standard monetary unit...