Word: bared
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...land, so unique in the abundance and tameness of its wild life, that one can approach to within a few feet of wandering monkey bands, catch armadillos with one's bare hands, and startle gorgeous blue and flame macaws, the giants of the parrot family from nearby branches, is not a mythical Paradise, but Guanacaste, isolated, northwestern province of Costa Rica, in Central America...
...world famed "Clinic City." Probably the only city of its type in the world, Rochester is a giant hospital. To it, each day, come hundreds of sufferers?by plane, train, motor, foot. All know that they will be treated. Twenty-five % are free cases; 30% pay the bare expenses of their own cases; 45% pay for running the Clinic. Besides the Brothers Mayo there are over 300 other medical men in town...
...installment-plan nest in Rockport, N. J., and that her husband shows no inclination to listen to her pleas for a more stimulating, if less propertied, life. A job of arson helps the Elliotts. Burned out, they take a studio apartment in the city, hobnob with the bare and bibulous, plan to spend their insurance money on a trip to Europe where Mrs. Elliott will absorb culture and scenery and Mr. Elliott promote a mysterious business scheme. But a pair of jealous wives back in New Jersey contrive to make it appear that Mrs. Elliott started the fire herself. Criminal...
...evening of his inaugural last year. President Hoover retired to the private White House library, seeking a book for relaxation. The bookshelves, he found, had been stripped bare by his predecessor. Last week the American Bookseller's Association revealed that it had prepared a special 500-volume library to present later this month to the White House. The books were selected by Alice Roosevelt Longworth, wife of the House Speaker, and Douglas S. Watson of San Francisco, father of Mrs. Herbert Hoover...
...Members quit the U. M. W. to find work in non-Union fields. "Yellow dog" contracts replaced Union agreements. Once 308,000 Union miners worked in bituminous fields, outside of Illinois. Now there are a scant 26,000. Union membership in Ohio has dwindled from 42,000 to a bare 1,000. Union districts in West Virginia, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kentucky and Tennessee have melted away. U. M. W. has shriveled to some 100,000 members...