Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. George T. Stallings, 63, of Haddock, Ga., oldtime baseballer, the man whose skill raised the Boston Braves from bottom to top of the National League in 1914, and won the World Series; at Haddock...
...exactly what happened. The next mistake you made was your statement that Mr. Kreider was coasting about in his Challenger. That's not true. It was Mr. Kreider who had been stunting; had just completed a lot of barrel rolls, and zoomed up - crashing into the bottom of the All American monoplane piloted by Captain Bruce. The next mistake you made was in stating that Captain Bruce's ship was an experimental plane. That is not true. The experimental plane had been flown around here for several months. The ship that Captain Bruce...
...going to be allowed to accumulate to. It is too much to hope that Harvard men will continue smilingly to pay five dollars a ticket to see football games when part of this sum is going to fill a secret chest which may be locked at the bottom of the sea for all anyone knows about it. Like it or not the Corporation will sometime have to explain this hoarding of a growing fund, and wisdom should dictate that they do so before the chances for misinterpretation and ill-will become any more numerous than they are at present...
...came to America to see what's at the bottom of all this 'Prosperity' of yours." said the General Director last week in his suite at Manhattan's Ambassador. "Take bathrooms for instance. Extr'ord'nary how little your hotel men spend on bathrooms! They tell me one really can't pay over $1,500 in New York for a bathroom with the finest standard fittings. Now in London what do you suppose we have to pay? Not less than ?1,000, or almost 5,000 of your dollars!" Though obviously keen...
...that they hug the outside of a basin upside down. No one knows. Explorer Wilkins found a depth of 17,000 feet (3½ miles) off Point Barrow. Amundsen found 15,000 feet off Spitsbergen. Peary dropped a 3,000-ft. rope at the Pole and could not touch bottom...