Word: baring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most prisoners slept in their clothes on bare boards, 100 to a room-it took Margolin 18 months to get a mattress. They worked nine days out of ten; no Soviet holidays were observed. The only pay was food, and even "100% execution of the work norm was not enough to receive sufficient food." To cover up what was going on, camp commanders in Camp Kotlas received orders in 1945 to list no more deaths caused by malnutrition...
...show) was The Carafe (1942), a dinnertime still life in black, brown, blue and beige. Braque had ingeniously illuminated the canvas with three different kinds of light -the silvery gleam of a spoon, the watery sparkle of a carafe, and the glint of fish scales-all successfully simulated by bare patches of canvas used in contrast to the surrounding depths of color...
...vast National Gallery, it was easy to miss the 28 small pieces of Egyptian sculpture set up last week in one of the first-floor galleries. None of the well-preserved little Nile maidens with their high busts and long bobs stands more than 30 inches in bare feet. The handsome obsidian head of Pharaoh Amenemhat III (1800 B.C.), ranked by Egyptologists as one of the great masterpieces of Egyptian art, measures less than 5 inches from chin to crown. Other pieces-the intricately carved make-up spoon used by Egyptian belles to mix cosmetics, and the bronze cat (with...
Miss Nuser spied the blaze in a pantry waste-basket, which was filled with used napkins. She smothered the fire with her bare hands, suffering burns, while two other girls whisked away piles of new napkins standing nearby. The cause of the fire is still not known...
Warm southerly winds from the vicinity of Bermuda, theoretically caused by the sun spots, and bare ground in much of the New England area are the direct causes of the balmy weather here, Brooks explained. "If there were snow on the ground it would reflect the sun's rays but since the ground has been largely bare this winter it tends to absorb heat from...