Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most foolproof method, but unfortunately limited to women, Editor Bryson wrote, is "the silk stocking system." It involves hiding prepared notes "in the tops of stockings directly beneath the skirt, which is shyly and slyly raised when help is needed" and then modestly pulled down whenever a proctor passes. "The professor is obviously stymied in the matter of proof or investigation...
...then he was running out of gas. Droning low over the south shore of Long Island, fearful that he would have to ditch in the Atlantic, Boothe saw a white strip beneath him. He had only five minutes' gas supply left when he leveled off over the deserted sands of Jones Beach, made a belly landing. He and the copilot were cut and shaken up; no one else was hurt, but the ship was wrecked. G.C.A. (see above) might have saved that...
...than a few fathoms below the surface. Certainly the islands had not grown upward from the depths. The atolls, he concluded, must have been formed when islands sank, and the coral reefs fringing their shorelines continued to grow. "For as mountain after mountain, and island after island slowly sank beneath the water, fresh bases would be successively afforded for the growth of the corals...
...thousand miles away, beneath Idaho's Sawtooth Mountains in glossy Sun Valley, Utah's team skied to victory last week in the West's intercollegiate championship meet against 125 entrants from 25 colleges. What looked to be the biggest & best U.S. ski season on record had begun...
Once in the Ziegfeld Follies he discovered Comedian Ed Wynn making faces at an audience from beneath the billiard table over which he was brandishing his famed bent cue. He conked Wynn with the cue, knocked him cold, beamed at the applause and went on without interruption...