Word: baring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summer schools has been effected even more seriously than the universities. Although unemployment has resulted in increasing library circulation throughout the country, the people who have constituted a large proportion of summer school registration in many cases have had to dispense with the luxury of education for the bare essentials of living. It is deplorable that poor and in some cases dishonest municipal financing, which was put to the acid test by the depression, had deprived many instructors of their pay and slashed salaries thirty per cent. In spite of the obstacles of the times and the fact that more...
...wages has any right to continue. By 'business' I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry: by workers I mean all workers-the white-collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level -I mean the wages of decent living...
About one-quarter of the Swarthmore students are Quaker. No Quaker himself, President Aydelotte admires Quaker liberalism and forthrightness, seeks to keep its influence alive in his college. Older professors sometimes "thee and thou" their students. Sundays there are "first-day meetings'' in the bare Quaker meeting house. The Swarthmore board of managers opens its sessions silently, does business by taking the ''sense of the meeting." Swarthmore students dress simply, do not gad about Philadelphia as much as students from Haverford and U. of P. The men meet nightly in the ''Cracker Room...
...subsided; and Coxswain Littlefield spurred the crew by telling them that there were only ten strokes to go when there were actually twenty. Drury and his crew responded with what was the best sprint witnessed this year on the Charles; and they nosed out the Midshipmen by a bare quarter-length...
...cold and or rain did not fall to give them moisture when they needed it in spring. When the farmer went forth in the early May sunshine, instead of finding his flat fields covered with a lush green growth of young grain, he found the soil all but bare on 13,000,000 of his 40,000,000 acres. Last week's report showed that 32.2% of last fall's plantings had been abandoned, an all-time record. Kansas, which harvested 240,000,000 bu. in 1931, is expected to produce only 58,000,000 bu. this year...