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Word: baring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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There can be no doubt that the strikers in this case have much to complain about. At best a seasonal industry, the shoe plants have been running at less than half-capacity since 1929. Wages were never much above a bare subsistence level, and since the crash have been cut repeatedly and drastically. Conditions in the factories are extremely foul; high competition between firms and the shifting of capital to the south has not allowed any luxuries. Unions are rarely dealt with and have little force in regulating payrolls. In view of this situation it is particularly tragic that nothing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SHOE PINCHES | 3/15/1933 | See Source »

...before he left office. An important revision of the Federal Bankruptcy Law. the measure represented a final thrust by a dying Congress at the dragon of private debt. By providing machinery whereby an individual could compose or compromise his debts under a judicial eye, it required only a bare majority of creditors to effect an agreement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: A Doctor & His Debts | 3/13/1933 | See Source »

However, the most beautiful result of the innovation would be its automatic nature. As the Transcript expresses it, in terse and simple periods: "A faithful reproduction of the body structure . . . would bring automatic corrections . . . thus freeing the brains of the populace from the details of bare existence and opening up wider fields for adventure and achievement." Certain difficulties arise, of course, when the economic system is made too nearly like the body: these details, however damning in the eyes of Joy Street matrons, would not under normal circumstances, interpose any real obstacle to the success of the plan. Should...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXCELSIOR | 2/10/1933 | See Source »

...Harry Stumm, 48, paymasters, were entering the door of the almost completed new House Office Building at the southern edge of the Capitol Plaza in Washington last week. In Paymaster Stumm's pocket was a $2,000 payroll for the painters on the construction job. Overhead, through the bare twigs of trees, bronze Freedom stood guard on the great white dome of national Authority. Across the street rose the old House Office building, usually well policed. But neither Freedom nor police prevented what happened to Paymaster Ecklund and Paymaster Stumm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Crime-of-the-Week | 1/30/1933 | See Source »

...British & U. S. children in Rome. Her primary interest was more therapeutic than artistic. She wanted to give her pupils the simplest and most direct method of self-expression to avoid the element of fear induced by tools that the child feels incapable of mastering. Spreading paint with the bare hands was an obvious idea but ordinary paints have obvious disadvantages. Fingerpaints, Miss Shaw's own invention, are made with harmless earth, pigments and a cold-creamy substance, all of which washes instantly off. The mixture is sensuously smooth to the touch, comes in six colors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fingerpaints | 1/30/1933 | See Source »

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