Word: baring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although forced to receive a courtesy call from Naval Minister Takeshi Takarabe, who got home from the conference only last week, it was noted that the call lasted the bare five minutes etiquette demanded...
...convinced that it is a privilege of every member of the Freshman Class to attend the Jubilee. Because of the great expense of even the bare necessities, however, many cannot go. Every increase over the cost of such necessities deprives so many members of the class the privilege of enjoying the Jubilee. Surely, its is worth while to spend money on good orchestras, good food, and attractive decorations; but to use some of the money for the entertainment soley of the committee members goes a step...
...staying in a town defined by the local innkeeper as "the loneliest place in England," is engaged in tracking down an elderly emerald thief who lives in a tower equipped with bloodhounds, secret passages, a beautiful girl, and a masked hunchback with a penchant for strangling people with his bare hands. Typical shot: the criminal-in-chief dropping a rebellious henchman through a trapdoor into quicksand...
Hanover, N. H., May 15.--Despite the cold weather that rather rudely descended down upon Hanover today a goodly number of the Dartmouth college students continued to wear their short pants today and walked about the streets bare legged. Some of the more timid souls resorted back to the conventional long pants but the staunch supporters of the movement could not be frozen...
Says Author Walpole, writing of England's northernmost county: "There is no ground in the world more mysterious, no land at once so bare in its nakedness a rich in its luxury, so warm with sun and so cold in pitiless rain, so gentle and pastoral, so wild and lonely; with sea and lake and river there is always the sound of running water, and its strong people have their feet in the soil and are independent of all men." Cumbrian natives say the same thing in fewer words: "Canny auld Cumberland bangs them a still...