Word: barely
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...promptly swamped by some 1,000 entries. Last week the Committee put 90 of them on exhibition in Manhattan, asked the public to help a gilt-edged jury pick the winners. On their choice for first prize both public and jury agreed. It was a picture of a bleak, bare no man's land on which a solitary, leafless tree stood silhouetted. Its simple motto: "Lest we regret. . . ." Its painter: Manhattan freelance Commercial Artist Arthur Hawkins...
...glaring misconceptions of the editorial result from the fact that its author thinks solely in terms of economics. What are the economic and ideological arguments for intervention? They are, he says, 'stripped to their bare essentials," straight imperialism-our foreign trade- seven per cent of our national income. One may picture American leaders shouting in unison: "Get in there boys and fight like the devil for that big, juicy seven per cent!" Any consideration of a free intellectual life, the kind of life that Harvard and other great American universities uphold today, any regard for religious liberty for which this...
...four million young people who are "out of school, out of work," democracy has had very little meaning. To the sixteen million others of similar age, in schools, on farms, or employed in bare-subsistence jobs, prospects for living seem hardly less bleak. Yet it is upon these young people that America must depend for its defense--in war and in peace alike...
...these could be afforded and laughed off in the past, they cannot be tolerated in the strained atmosphere of the present emergency. A Congressional committee for the investigation of subversive activities does not have to be the Dies Committee as it stands today. The LaFollette Committee, which has laid bare reactionary forces of the strike-breaking breed in the country, has demonstrated how investigations can be handled by an intelligent, competent and hard-working group more interested in facts than in headlines. Its well-documented reports, filed with the proper authorities, contrast strikingly with the ill-founded alarums filling Dies...
Financed by John D. Rockefeller Jr., who put up a total of $1,200,000, the big dig in Athens laid bare the site of the Agora (ancient market place) lying at the foot of the Acropolis and the Areopagus. To get at this, the diggers had to tear down 365 houses in modern Athens. Some 250,000 tons of earth were removed from 25 acres. In Philadelphia last week, Dr. Shear gave the American Philosophical Society a summary of the finds...