Word: baring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over the weekend, the American League race turned upside down. Winning a desperate doubleheader (5-3, 5-3), Cleveland pushed the faltering White Sox from first place to third, snatched the No. 1 spot a bare half-game ahead of the Yankees. A three-run Mantle homer helped the Yankees humble the Senators, 8-3, stay in second place. With some 20 games left to play, the stretch, even for veterans like Casey Stengel, was fast becoming a manager's nightmare...
...Oscar. At Edwards, Stapp found himself in command of 2,000 ft. of rail track, the Gee-Whizz (a rocket sled built by Northrop Aircraft, Inc.), a bare barracks that was supposed to serve as a lab, and seven hard-working Northrop employees. His mission: to determine human tolerance to deceleration so that adequate aircraft safety harnesses could be developed...
STOCK SALES of new issues will be helped by changes in SEC rules. Instead of restricting companies to "tombstone ads," i.e., bare facts a out the broker's name, address, and the security to be sold, SEC will permit them to publish advance sales bulletins with enough detail about pricing and underwriting to attract dealers and customers...
Last year, for the first time since the war, said the report, the rate of housebuilding overtook the bare needs of replacement and population growth. The fastest-building countries were Norway (10.5 units per 1,000 pop.) and West Germany (10.2).* Slowest were Czechoslovakia (2.2) and East Germany (2.3). France, because it delayed so long and has so far to go. made the most dramatic acceleration (40% of French houses have officially passed the age of obsolescence-100 years). In two years, France's construction doubled to 162,000 units...
...desk is bare except for a well-thumbed dictionary, a picture of the novelist's wife and an old-fashioned gold watch with Roman numerals and a heavy lid. For five years the watch has lain open on the desk while its owner listened to its ticking and wrote steadily, using the same aging desk pen and yellow lined pads. Says Herman Wouk (pronounced woke...