Word: baring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Announcement of the award of 220 mid-year degrees was made yesterday at University Hall. These will be the first degrees which will bare the signature of President Conant...
Sing Sing's lecture room, a long, bare hall set off by iron wickets from its library, was packed last week when fat, jolly Professor Neilsen walked in without a guard. He found his listeners most interested in aviation and weather forecasting. He had to translate "cyclonic and anticyclonic disturbances" into "fair and foul weather,' but went away with the opinion that 20 or 30 of his listeners had "very high college intelligence." Said he: "There was no difference in talking to them and in talking to a group of college freshmen...
...maestro's mail has become his consuming interest. He cuts engagements short, rushes home between rehearsals to see if more letters have come. Those he receives he spreads out on his cherished piano, hitherto sacred to his mementoes of Wagner and Verdi. In a Manhattan court appeared thread bare Emma Swift Hammerstein, 51, third wife of the late Oscar Hammerstein, to sue Arthur Hammerstein, her unfriendly stepson, for nonsupport. Four years ago when she was found guilty of vagabondage, Mr. Hammerstein offered to support her for life if she would leave the city (TIME, June 16, 1930). Mrs. Hammerstein...
Cleveland's big, bare Public Auditorium, scene of the Al Sirat Grotto circus, was empty except for circus attendants one morning last week when Beatty brought his cats in for rehearsal. Five old lions and four old tigers padded through the timber runway into the steel-barred arena, leaped up on their pedestals. Sammy, a big, smart, well-behaved lion of five years, perched just above the runway. Then six of the new beasts came scampering in. Third in line was a winsome young lioness named Bessie...
...election that year. But this is 1934 and the whole House and one third of the Senate must go to the voters in November. That difference largely accounted for last week's resurgence of the pension problem on Capitol Hill where the regular session had been sitting a bare fortnight...