Word: bared
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Pinnacle and compass were washed overboard. Water poured in, set the food afloat in the galley. Five times a tilt of a wave threw the green-faced cook onto the hot stove. The men slept in their oilskins. For 18 hours Shamrock plowed through the Gulf Stream under bare poles. A seam opened in the delicate bow, bashed 'by tons of water every minute. For days on end two men were lashed to the wheel day & night, three worked the pumps, three slept. Nobody looked sternward where the seas piled up. They felt better looking ahead. Every...
Most London editors denounced the 'trial as bare-faced fraud and propaganda, suggested that Professor Ramzin will never be shot, though his execution may be "officially announced." A large section of the Paris press demanded that Prime Minister Andre Tardieu recall the French Ambassador from Moscow, break off Russo-French relations-but M. Tardieu was not stampeded. Throughout the U. S., editors appeared puzzled by the goings on at Moscow, anxious but unable to believe them faked. Typically the New York Herald Tribune seemed to have faith that Professor Ramzin will actually be executed if convicted, but found inexplicable...
...left Milwaukee to be a painter, studied at the Manhattan Art Students League, took up dancing to perfect her knowledge of form, cooking her meals over her boardinghouse gas jet. She conceives her own interpretations, costumes them. A sort of terpsichorean Ruth Draper, she performs on a severely bare stage to music from a piano. Probably because of her interest in form and color, painters like her. Artist John Sloan, under whom she studied, is her good friend, has etched several of her dances. At her opening performance last week were Artists John Marin, Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe...
Rivalry between the two active house units is assuming an extraordinary aspect. Not to be outdone by "the bells of Lowell," Dunster House is striving to decorate itself wherever a bare surface will support new ornamentation. Wrought iron fences, heavily sculptured panelling, and a Greek vase on the Gatepost are now deemed insufficient. Large emblazoned shields have recently been erected to the growing wonder of the students...
...will: 1) Perfect a tutorial system, by increasing the number of instructors (there will be 65 for 650 boys), by dividing the boys into sections on the basis of individual ability, by teaching them in conference rooms, in a new building modeled after Dartmouth's English House, abolishing bare, formal classrooms. 2) Raise the standard of living for instructors, provide a sabbatical year for three instructors annually. 3) Make it possible for boys, teachers, advisers to reside continuously in the same house (after the first year) by building four new dormitories, administration & athletic buildings (with $1,000,000 given...