Word: bottom
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...years his favorite personages have been peasants; he loves them because they are simple as the domestic animals which live with them. In a word he loves those who are at the bottom, who ignore or know nothing of the moral laws. He ridicules the men who bear on their shoulders the weight of society, who confound police regulations with the moral law, those who think it a sin to break a petty ordinance, but who will commit murder if the law will absolve them...
...concrete tank is now completed. It is sixty three feet long and twenty six feet wide, rectangular in shape and with rounded corners. The sliding seats are to be placed in a rectangular boat, similar in general construction to an ordinary eight, which will be supported from the bottom of the tank by metal braces, skeleton underwork and water proof compartments, through which the returning current of water will pass. On either side of the boat will be a wooden platform four feet in breadth which will serve as a support for men getting in and out of the boat...
...whose greatness was of such a stamp that he was not allured by suggestions of political influence as a reward for brilliant achievements in another line. He was a man without schooling, but of great genius, and an indefatigable worker; the story of his rise from walking the Mississippi bottom under a diving-bell to the position of the leading hydraulic engineer of his time, and more than any other man, the river's master, is wonderfully interesting, and loses no interest in the telling...
...left of which will be four rows of seats. These are all high backed with sufficient rise for the occupants of each seat to have a clear view over those in the seat below. A heavy plank floor between the seats and a dashboard at the back and bottom give rest and prevent injury to clothing. The arched roof of the cars is so supported that no obstruction whatever exists to a clear view, while at the same time protection is given against showers. The cars are decorated and painted in crimson and blue...
...Alfred Jingle, and "The Cratchets' Christmas Dinner"; from Henry Esmond, the part in which Lady Castlewood explains to Lord Hamilton Esmond's right to be present at the marriage of Beatrix; and from "Vanity Fair," the passage in which Rawdon Crawley surprises Becky with Lord Steyn; "The Cane-Bottom Chair," "The Age of Wisdom" and "The End of the Play...