Word: bottom
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...following men have been appointed football ushers for the rest of the season. Owing to the large number of applicants only half could be used for the game today, but others will be given a chance as they are needed. Men marked A stand at the bottom of the steps, men marked C at the upper entrance. Ushers should be at their places at 2 o'clock sharp. The assistant head usher will distribute the badges to the ushers at their places. Any usher who fails to appear on time for every game, or who does not send a substitute...
...essential point about the system of Freshman advisers is to create friendship with the incoming undergraduate; this simply consists in getting down to rock bottom, and there is no halo about rock bottom...
...depth of the ministry demands study for the understanding of a man's own belief and the power to allay spiritual doubts in others. The minister is privileged to see the bottom of friendship and of sorrow. That men and women turn to him in distress, is one of the greatest joys of his life. Such incidents raise the height of the ministry to a level reached by few other professions. Constant contact with the highest ideals leads inevitably to a more satisfying life...
Snow slides are quite like miniature glaciers, being formed by forty or fifty feet of snow drifting info a deep mountain gulch. When the spring rains come, the water percolates through this body, causing the bottom of it to melt away. The immense mass, weighing hundreds of tons, then starts on its swift course down the chasm, tearing everything before it. One picture showed how a slide had cut a straight, narrow path directly through a forest, and in one instance had driven a log completely through a larger tree. The momentum of these slides coming from such a height...