Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beast was chasing it, perhaps a sabre-toothed tiger. The sloth was a plant-eating animal with soft teeth and did not know how to fight. So it could only lope towards a hole it knew. It reached the hole, scrambled over the ledge, fell 100 feet to the bottom. Bats who mat> the place their perch fluttered and squeaked fearfully, angrily. The preying beast went away. But the sloth could not climb out of the hole, which was a volcanic pit with vertical sides. Soon the sloth died and the indifferent bats dropped their guano on its dead body...
...With the abandonment of aristocracy, and therefore with no frozen classes at the top with slavery and with diminishing poverty at the bottom, we are witnessing a volume of new recruits to national leadership in every avenue of life such as never known before...
...last, eager to see what this horrible sinner could look like, staggering, moaning, the congregation filed forward. Each man and woman peered. The casket was empty. A mirror in the bottom reflected the face of the person who stared...
...Monday to its president, John A. Heydler, propose to make out of the baseball nine a baseball ten. Mr. Heydler would give every manager the option of naming a tenth man on his team who would bat in place of the pitcher when ever the rotation got to the bottom of the batting order. The pitcher would continue to pitch, always sitting on the bench between innings, until his usefulness on the mound was exhausted...
...that left the ticker far behind, Canadian Marconi dove to 15½ before trading in it was suspended. The stock had been riding on a rumor that Radio Corp. of America was planning to absorb Canadian Marconi. Sir Joseph's $3 estimate virtually flattened this story; thus the bottom dropped out of Marconi. Upon resumption of trading, Canadian Marconi continued to decline. It reopened at n|, dropped...