Word: baring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philadelphia last fortnight a 13-year-old Finn, looking too tall for his bare knees and short pants, listened to Eugene Ormandy rehearsing the Philadelphia Orchestra in Jean Sibelius' surging Finlandia. Much moved, Finn Heimo Haitto (pronounced hay-moe high-toe) sat down and wrote his good friend Sibelius all about it. Last week the boy had more to tell the old composer. Again bare-kneed, and sailorcollared, Heimo Haitto tucked a Guarnerius fiddle under his beardless chin, made his bigtime U. S. debut with Ormandy and the orchestra in the plushy Academy of Music. Critics liked his easy...
...afternoon saw Bill Homans' Jayvee 150's step out way ahead of their M.I.T. adversaries and come home with a four length victory. Later in the afternoon, the Varsity Later in the afternoon, the Varsity 150's had a tougher time when they beat the Tech boat by a bare length. The competition was much keener, but Vince Bailey confidently stroked the Crimson oarsmen past the Engineers in the last quarter mile...
Defeated by a bare 1,760 votes in the fall of 1938, the proposed charter provoked a bitter verbal exchange between Cambridge city councilors and James M. Landis, dean of the Law School and head of the Plan E. Committee...
...values, as he has valued all his life, bare nature itself, and human living inter locked with nature. He despises, as he has for years, what he summarizes as "the modern spirit in Norway" (read "the world") and to the "little upstart heart" of the "modern" reader he addresses his book...
...Intrepid Spirit." For the News plant and equipment, its Associated Press franchise and other assets, Grocer McDonald paid $150,000, assumed the burden of its $325,000 bonded debt. Last week George Fort Milton started again from scratch. He had 675 backers, most of them in Chattanooga, a bare $25,000 capital...