Word: baring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Exposing the bare facts that her balloons were getting thinner and thinner, Sally Rand told a delegation of reporters who thronged her dressing room in the R.K.O. Theater in Boston Saturday night that the rubber shortage was affecting her more than any one else in America...
...March 15, predictions are that at least 500 additional men will be taken from the rolls, leaving a bare 2,000 students. Those leaving in this group of 500 are an estimated 350 men who are to graduate, 50 Juniors who are to go into medical work, and an unpredictable number of men who will receive orders from the E. R. C. or the draft...
...middle of the bare floor was a pile of trunks and boxes, neatly scaled and with tags and stickers announcing their destination. Vag pulled off his gloves, methodically, with his teeth, and slid his hands into his pockets. He looked around him slowly at the rectangular islands of clean paint on the walls, ghosts of Bob's school banners and pictures, that had become so familiar. He stared hard at the emptiness. A piece of jagged white wood hanging slantwise on the wall by a single nail caught his eye. Vag cocked his head and read...
Fishkill Farms, the Hudson Valley home dear to the heart of Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr., lay frozen and snow-specked under grey mists this week. The Mclntosh apple trees, which Henry Morgenthau loves to see at blossom time, stuck bare, stubby branches into a winter wind. The rose bushes which he likes best of all (his favorite is called Better Times) stood like dry sticks in little mounds of protecting earth. Not until April would Fishkill Farms come to life again...
...will put an end to the onerous tedium of making a living. . . . The idea women have that life is marshmallows which will come as a gift . . . has defeated half the husbands in America. ... It is as responsible for the absurdity of keeping up with the Joneses as the bare instinct toward conformity. ... It long ago became associated with the notion that the bearing of children was such an unnatural and hideous ordeal that the mere act entitled women to respite from all other physical and social responsibility...