Word: baring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Captain Tarabotto (while lights flickered, grating noises were heard and the Rex slowed down to bare steering way. creeping past Malaga): "The trouble has nothing to do with the main engines. It has to do with one of the turbodynamos which supply current for lighting, ventila- tion and cooking...
...McKee-who, to spare taxes and borrow money from bankers, is trying to cut city operating costs-to reduce his department budget by 20%. Before Dr. Norris' eyes was the barren poverty of his morgue office-a small room, cheap furniture, a microscope, reagent bottles. The floor is bare. But in an adjacent laboratory is a dingy blue rug, once blood-stained evidence in a murder case...
...expansio ad absurdum, inflating his original idea into incredible superlatives. Fairbanks is on his way to Sumatra to shoot tigers when his schooner yacht passes close to a tropic island and he bets his friend (William Farnum) that he is competent to mold jungle into civilization with only bare hands and one toothbrush. The friend takes the bet; Fairbanks jumps overboard; his dog follows; Fairbanks throws back the toothbrush. Audiences chuckle as he staggers out of the surf with his alert, parody Boy Scout expression, ready for any emergency Scenarist Tom Geraghty may devise. Having landed June i, by June...
...Vagabond stayed all day on the docks, until the last ship came in and anchored, its bare masts standing up against the sunset...
Like Democrats and Republicans, Socialists mix politics and picnics, forensics and fun. Some 25,000 of them last week flocked to Ulmer Park, a big bare, boarded plot near Brooklyn's Coney Island, for an all-day political outing to start their party's national campaign. Working families brought boxes of coarse sandwiches, pickles and fruit. Hot dog stands did a sizzling business. Youngsters played on swings, rode the merry-go-round. Their parents lolled on newspapers listening to band music or strolled off to watch a soccer game. Trade groups sang songs. Broadway performers gave a free show...