Word: baring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Negligent newspaper reporters assumed that anyone who could afford that kind of money for a broken-down fiddle was a known man. They were wrong. The city-room files were bare of Julius Klorfein's name. At his penthouse apartment he apologized for this unfortunate anonymity: "I've just spent my life working hard and building up my cigar business, and I guess I didn't have any time to get in Who's Who or What's What or anything like that...
...treaty ship laid down in 1927, she is the oldest heavy cruiser the U.S. has. So bare of streamlined beauty is her ungainly silhouette that Correspondent Bob Casey (Torpedo Junction) fondly fastened the nickname "Swayback Maru" on her when the censors would not let him reveal her real name. Because she never got hit hard enough to be sent home for repairs, she never got much publicity. But many a high-ranking Navy man was willing to concede by last week that on performance the Salt Lake City was the No. 1 U.S. cruiser...
...last week in the retail grocery trade. Since the expected 40 to 50% slump in food sales volume this year may liquidate at least one out of every six of the 580,000 U.S. food dealers, grocers figure their best hope of staying in business is to stock their bare shelves with other types of merchandise...
...clothes rationing was coming. Fed on fear and selfishness, the rumor grew fast and fat. By this week it had snowballed into a buying wave that no denial from Washington could stop; department-store sales averaged up to 100% above this time last year; soft-goods counters were stripped bare; women went hog-wild over anything wearable at any price, of any style...
...will be held, this time in Symphony Hall. You needn't be worried too much about the acoustics, as they have a fine public address system with plenty of mikes. In addition a screen will be erected behind the performers so that the music won't echo around the bare stage...