Word: bottom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...part of the world that had gone no place since the Civil War, the directionless road of vaudevillian fame was far more apt as a symbol of Arkansas' dead-end economic and political condition than as a sampling of Ozark humor. For all its majestic forests and fertile bottom lands, its bountiful natural resources and the Mississippi on its eastern frontier, the state remained for long decades a kind of limboland...
...trouble was-and is-that Arkansans have lived too long behind self-constructed walls of complacency, mediocrity and provincialism. Well into the 1950s, the state ranked at or near the bottom of virtually every index of progress, from literacy to average income to the number of dentists per capita. Though the legislature in the '20s dubbed Arkansas the "Wonder State" and later more modestly renamed it the "Land of Opportunity," by the early '40s the brightest opportunity for young people moving off the farms lay in a one-way ticket to another state. Those who managed...
...these problems are sidestepped by a new method: putting the boat in a bubble bath for the winter. Marina owners have found that a simple ½-h.p. air compressor, humming away throughout the cold months, can be used to pump air through perforated tubing that lies on the bottom of the harbor. The resulting bubbles then rise and carry with them the relatively warmer water on the bottom-the same lower strata of water that keep fish alive through the winter. Thus constantly replenished by water from below, the surface is kept above the freezing point, even when...
...changeover would affect only a small number of the students in Groups II, III, and IV -- perhaps 100 of them -- and no one at the top or bottom of his class, Dean Monro said yesterday...
...maybe you believe in miracles, or you're already in the Rock 'n' Roll bag and it's too late to get out. There still are two ways a young group or artist can make it: starting from the top with connections, or working up from the bottom with forbearance. Lew Opler, a sophomore in Lowell House, spent a month of last summer experimenting from the bottom. On Aug. 21, he knocked on the door of Richmond Recording, one of New York's biggest music publishing houses, and asked the receptionist if he could see whoever...