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Word: baring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mail Must Go Through. In Miami, police jailed Postman Joseph Gagen even after he explained that he was delivering his mail in his bare skin because he had fallen off his bicycle into an anthill and had to abandon his clothes in order to abandon the ants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 14, 1942 | 12/14/1942 | See Source »

...major problem," he wrote in an article entitled "He Learns About Hatlessness at Harvard," which appeared in the official organ of his union, a newspaper called The Hat Worker. Naturally it pained Wagenfeld, striding through the Yard with his chapeon at a rakish angle, to see fair haired, bare-haired boys appear from behind every tree and building...

Author: By Mitchell I. Goodman, | Title: Labor Fellow Eyes Hatless Harvard, Blames Lack of Racks for Bare Pates | 12/11/1942 | See Source »

...cruisers, one battleship (and possibly another) and 17 destroyers. In the terms of remaining U.S. and Japanese strength-the only terms that count-this balance is favorable to the U.S. in every category except carriers, but the net effect on Pacific sea power is decidedly less than the bare figures from recent actions indicated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: One Year of War | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

...theory of their origin to the American Physical Society, meeting at the University of Chicago. They do not come from outer space as electrons: that would require a million billion electron volts. More probably the original missile from the remote regions of the universe is a proton, a bare hydrogen nucleus moving at terrific velocity with energy of 200 million electron volts. When it strikes the earth's atmosphere it breaks up either by explosion or collision and, like an earthbound skyrocket, forms a spray of smaller particles, called mesotrons. These in turn, colliding with oxygen and nitrogen molecules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Clue to Atom Smashing | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

...years Benito Mussolini roared grandiose nonsense from his balcony. He rubbed snow on his bare chest for photographers. To his superstitious peasants he proclaimed that war was the natural state of a healthy nation. Last week, in a small voice. Il Duce urged his people: "Tener Duro" ("Hold firm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Pax Romana | 11/30/1942 | See Source »

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