Word: baring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese looked uncomprehending, bowed again and tried to arrange his torn, filthy shirt and pull his trouser legs down to his bare, scaly feet...
...aboard was lost; the forward bulkheads, bare to the buffeting seas, were shored up; the Pittsburgh fell behind the fleet...
...Cupboard Was Bare. The U.S. had some excuse. Its own food outlook was anything but bright (see BUSINESS). There was plenty of will to help Europe but almost no will to make any real sacrifice, and nothing short of real sacrifice could begin to meet UNRRA's and Europe's needs...
...French Government made a revolutionary announcement: the guillotine, which like military conscription, is one of the fruits of the French Revolution, is about to go the way of the auto-da-fe as an instrument of human justice. Henceforth condemned Frenchmen will not have to lie down and bare their necks to the falling knife; they may, as soon as transportation and the French electric-power shortage permit, sit down in a shiny new, U.S.-made electric chair...
Mysterious Corona. Last week's eclipse, whose maximum duration (in Greenland) was 76 seconds, raised to a bare two and a quarter hours the total recorded observation of eclipses by modern science. Much of the scientific interest centers around the corona, which extends for millions of miles from the sun's surface. The corona,'most scientists think, is created by electromagnetic radiation and is probably related to the sun's magnetism and sunspots. Astrophysicists argue mildly among themselves about what its incandescent elements are (perhaps calcium, hydrogen, helium). The corona gives off a strange light, differing...