Word: baring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first half when, with a minute or so left to play, Oregon State's drive stopped at Fordham's 36-yd. line. On fourth down, Schwammel dropped back for a place kick. The ball sailed through the air for 46 yd., cleared the crossbar by a bare three feet, won for Oregon State after a scoreless last half...
...sense, the fact that there will be bare patches in the big steel stands is a boost for the judgment of Dr. A. Lawrence Lowell. When the football hysteria was at its height, when the undergraduate editors were shrieking themselves hoarse about overemphasis and when it looked as though the demand for seats and more seats would never be satiated, plans were drawn for a Stadium that would seat 120,000. But Dr. Lowell said, in effect: "Build in the open end of your Stadium, put in a permanent structure, but don't worry about handling more people than...
Last year the sages of the ages had it all doped out that Yale could win and the Blue proceeded to mop up the mud and slime with the crimson jerseys in a masterful fashion. Harvard had lost to Brown and the Army and had eked out bare margins over Dartmouth and Holy Cross. To be sure, Yale hadn't won any championships, but at least she had lost by smaller edges. So the debacle in the Bowl did not surprise the dopesters. But someone is going to get fooled today, for there probably could not be found...
...ages were waiting to see how she would perform as hostess of the White House. That Washington's fifth Depression winter would lack Taftian social glitter was to be expected. But busy Mrs. Roosevelt announced two innovations calculated to strip the season's social functions to the bare bone of practicality...
...impress the President and Congress, Mrs. Margaret Higgins Sanger Slee called an "American Conference on Birth Control & National Recovery," to meet in Washington Jan. 15-17. Main argument: "With 3,500,000 American families dependent on relief for their bare subsistence, there has arisen an acute need for speed in removing the legal restrictions which hamper the poor families in their natural desire to curtail increase which only aggravates suffering and piles up still more enormous problems of public and private charity." Mrs. Sanger reports a "vast amount of bootlegging has sprung up" in contraceptive supplies. Contraceptive clinicians will...