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Word: bottom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...results. Then, in India, Zoologist Bhairab Chandra Bhattacharya noticed that the upper portion of a sperm sample tended to breed more bulls; the lower portion gave more cows. Apparently this was because the sperm that produce female offspring are heavier than those that produce males and sank to the bottom of the solution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sex by Sedimentation | 7/17/1964 | See Source »

...network. He has ignored chances to open specialty stores, steadily steered Myer's toward the volume market. "There's no future in catering to a so-called elite," Tolley says. "Aim at the broad middle section of the population and you automatically get both the top and bottom sections." Myer's not only has been good for the Australian shopper but for Australian industry as well: Tolley sees to it that of the thousands and thousands of items carried in Myer's stores, fully 90% are made in Australia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Australia: Down-Under Macy's | 7/17/1964 | See Source »

...bidet. Soon he had two baby leopards, four macaws, several adolescent crocodiles, a parrot and three snakes in his own room. Remembers the film's producer: "The crocodiles ate the birds. The leopards ate the crocodiles. The snakes died of starvation. The room stank like the bottom of some Amazonian cesspool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actors: Breathless Man | 7/10/1964 | See Source »

...green, blue and yellow. But they all said the same thing: "Citizen Dr. François Duvalier, President of the Republic, will exercise for life his high functions according to Article 92 of the present constitution. Does this conform to your wishes? And do you ratify it?" At the bottom, in big black letters, was the word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti: What Is Called Democracy | 6/26/1964 | See Source »

...buyers early this month, drew S.R.O. crowds and, of course, caused raging controversy. "Now come, boys," wrote the New York Herald Tribune's Eugenia Sheppard, "girls have been dropping the tops of their suits for years." "It has no dignity," snipped Designer Norman Norell, "it's rock bottom." Colleague Oleg Cassini explained that the suit could hardly influence him. "I'm already very conscious," he yawned, "of that part of the anatomy." Through all the fuss, Rudi stood fast, insisted the suit was no gag. "After all," he sighed, "women have been exposing their bosoms all through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Barely a Bore | 6/26/1964 | See Source »

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