Word: baring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that has been attempted at Harvard for many years, so that the large number of men practising is gratifying, considering the rival attractions of intramural sports. The work is carried on under the direction of Walter Nelson '31, instructor in gymnasium work, and the meet is expected to lay bare talent which has been developing rapidly in the last few weeks. The five events are: parallel bars, horizontal bar, side horse, flying rings and tumbling, and each entrant will perform two optional routines is the event in which he is entered...
There was no doubt in anyone's mind that Spitz would win the event, if not a new record. At 6:4, a height at which W. B. Page barely managed to hurl himself over an old-fashioned square bar in 1888 for the first U. S. high jump record, he cleared the bar as easily as a kitten hopping across a spool. Best of the field against him was a thin coffee-colored Negro, Howard Spencer, of Geneva College, who, even more eccentric than Spitz, wore one shoe and jumped with his right foot bare. Spencer took three...
...charnel-house of Surrealism, one stands bare-headed and resigned. Mufiled drums beat, and men murmur, "Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud?" But for this newest venture of Harkness heraldry, let Lowell bells ring out and the bird-calls sound forth loud and clear. It is a romantic story, this calling of Harvard men to their colors. One day in January, masters and tutors, in meeting assembled, folded their hands and awaited the moment when the spirit should move them. Then to each there came that inner voice, whispering to men of Dunster, "blue and gold," murmuring...
Harvard grapplers took the last three bouts of the Chicago meet yesterday afternoon to gain a bare 16 to 16 tie with the visiting Westerners, who trimmed Brown matmen in another contest several hours after they met the Crimson aggregation...
...inviting Parsees, Chinese, Persians to conduct their rituals in St. Mark's in-the-Bouwerie. The Protestant Episcopal Diocese of New York began to twitter. In 1923 there was a famed dance service, celebrating the feast of St. Nicholas, which was erroneously reported in the Press as a "bare-leg, bare-hip affair." Actually it was performed by a troupe of respectable, well-clad Barnard girls. But Bishop William Thomas Manning refused to countenance Dr. Guthrie's practices, forbade any further goings-on. Dr. Guthrie stood his ground, went on giving ritual dances. In 1924 Bishop Manning ceased...