Word: baring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Football, having just reached manhood, was still informal, idealistic, and lusty. Though the team was supported by the college magazines, it did not draw large crowds out to Jarvis Field. There a couple of thousand people would gather to watch the bare-headed, mustachioed athletes tangle...
When the German occupation troops left Greece, they left a bare 6000 volumes in the Anatolia library, President Ernest W. Riggs told Raphael Demos, professor of Philosophy who played host for the University yesterday...
...Beck, neither of whom had fastened his safety belt, were thrown from their seats. Two things saved the plane. Sisto struck buttons which feathered the prp-pellors of three engines. Copilot Melvin Logan, who was securely belted in, was able to roll the ship right side up, a bare 300 to 400 feet from the ground...
...ingenuity of college doodle bugs; any real amelioration of the situation must come from the students, who are, in the long run, the victims of their own stupidity. A badly defaced book not only annoys the reader, but its usable life is cut from twenty years to a bare three years. With a text shortage still prevalent and the college filled to capacity, students would be foolish to scribble away their education by destroying an irreplaceable stock of references...
...Francisco this week 2,883 enjoyable miles from his bare and fusty Washington office, he was engaged in the most stirring of his official privileges-presiding over the annual convention of the A.F.L. Standing on the stage of San Francisco's echoing Civic Center auditorium, he could look out at and appraise the great men of U.S. labor's oldest clan-the hard-eyed and corpulent satraps in serge suits and blucher shoes, the sleek attorneys, the jovial bully boys, and all the delegates, great & small, from all the temples and parishes of craft unionism...