Word: baring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great is the variety of activities which Harvard presents that even a bare enumeration would be impossible within the space allotted. Suffice it to say that any student who wants can join some organization and no student should be unable to find one that arouses his enthusiasm...
...planned to address the state Federation of Labor at Springfield this week before returning to her Washington office. Madam Secretary Perkins' office is on the seventh floor of the ugly Labor Department building, sandwiched in between a garage and a cheap rooming house. It is a large bare room with north light. Madam Secretary Perkins uses a big flat-topped desk, piled with papers and equipped with two telephones. She arrives at 9 o'clock, eats lunch from a tray, goes out for dinner at 7, returns to work until midnight. Her long hours cost her the services...
Grandpa Storr's oldest son, arrives at Storrhaven, the old man gets a new interest in life-showing her that she belongs, not in New York where she has been married and divorced, but on the ancestral Iowa farm. What happens in The Stranger's Return is bare enough in outline. Grandpa pretends to be suffering from senile dementia, uses the three doctors of the county insane board as witnesses to a new will in which he leaves the farm to his granddaughter. She falls in love with young Guy Crane (Franchot Tone) whose land lies next...
...wing of its public library, but rattlesnakes are her specialty. Some seven months ago she set out to placate Sahuara, one of her male rattlers. First she soothed him with a cloth on the end of a stick. Soon she was able to stroke him with her bare hand. Then she put him in a cage with Kitty, a female rattler. Last fortnight appeared the results of Curator Wiley's kind treatment-ten baby rattlesnakes, of which four survived. As far as records show, no one else has ever succeeded in what she had now accomplished for the third...
...bloodier rumors. The sect still flourishes (TIME, April 17). Its headquarters are in Mora and most of its membership within New Mexico. In almost every Mexican village, says Fergusson. there is an apparently deserted building, the Morada, headquarters of the Penitentes. "Nowadays one may see only the whipping of bare and lacerated backs and the crucifixion of an image but what goes on in the night and in the secret chamber of the Morada none but the Penitent Brothers know." A Mexican told Fergusson that the Penitentes number 35.000. Pioneer days in the Southwest are over, but the border still...