Word: baring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...provisions in the codes of service industries. Next day General Johnson promptly performed the permitted operation on seven codes: 1) cleaning & dyeing; 2) automobile storage and parking; 3) barbers: 4) bowling and billiards; 5) shoe rebuilding; 6) advertising display installations: 7) advertising distribution. This stripped these codes to the bare bone of wage, hour, child labor, and collective bargaining clauses which service industries must still obey. Local groups may write prices back into their local codes provided 85% of their members agree, but no longer will NRA headquarters try to set the price of pressing a pair of pants...
First scenes were acted at Murchison Falls, 150 mi. up the Nile from Victoria Nyanza. Miss Booth acted in a skimpy garment made of monkey fur. Elephant grass cut her bare feet and legs, the sun blistered her bare thighs, arms and back; African insects gouged her everywhere. The heroine rejoiced when a cloudburst destroyed the camp, two hippopotamuses trampled the debris, and Director Van Dyke ordered the company to move to the Belgian Congo...
...lone oak. "At the upper end. in three groups of three each were 150 ft. flat frames of bunting ingeniously perforated against the wind force-the national flag in the centre flanked on each side by a swastika banner. In front of these, beside the parade oak, a single bare speaker's stand 30 ft. high with red covered chairs around it, jutted out into the field. . . . "Surrounding all and covering the whole field from edge to edge was a vast sea of faces. All dress was invisible except in the front line, all personality obliterated. . . . "Then Herr Hitler...
...laymen and churchmen. In best gown, business suit or frock coat they attended a reception at the Governor's mansion, motored about the surrounding countryside, shook hands with one another, chatted and lobbied for votes as churchmen will. Day & night the delegates converged upon Jackson's big, bare, steel-beamed, municipal auditorium dedicated to World War dead. There they prayed, transacted churchly business, spoke up in meeting, and on several occasions noted that official tabulations showed more votes cast than there were delegates. Among their problems...
...Bellboy golfers put a second break in what had all the earmarks of becoming a losing streak by eking out a bare 5-4 win over the Rabbits yesterday. This victory boosts them from next to last to third place. The Gold Coasters are still on top of the heap, with the Puritans right under them...