Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Down the side of Pike's Peak, Col., coming at a precipitous rate of speed, with an enormous roar, was seen last week a hairy and runtlike Negro. On reaching the bottom, 48 minutes after he had left the top, the Negro said that he had broken the record for coming down Pike's Peak and that his name was Dolphus Stroud...
...Epsom Downs the Derby starts at the bottom of what plainsmen would call a hill. With their necks low and their haunches spread the horses climb for half a mile while the crowd at the top of the hill ducks under the fence (it is never policed) and stands in the track watching them struggle up wearily and slowly. When the horses get to the top of the hill they race for 30 seconds on a level piece of track against the sky and the people in the grandstand can see them for the first time. Flamingo was in front...
...probability the answer lies in none of these suggestions. Today--and even more so tomorrow--a Bachelor's degree is but the bottom rung in the educational ladder. Men choosing the pedagogic field must now prepare to leap the hurdles of the Master's and the Doctor's letters. Therefore although many have the teaching profession in mind they hesitate to announce their decision on entering the graduate school, realizing that further study may possibly lead them into paths divergent from the professorial chair. A man entering the Law School or the Medical School has his future definitely decided...
Amid so much furor, few South Africans had time to dissect and rationalize their new flag. Basically it is a horizontal tricolor, reading from top to bottom orange, white and blue. In the centre of the white stripe is superimposed the old Orange Free State flag, hanging vertically. Adjoining, on the white, is the Union Jack, spread toward the flagstaff. Lastly the old Transvaal vierkleur is superimposed upon the white, spreading away from the staff. Thus the new flag, which might be called the "Union Union Jack" is one big tricolor with three little flags stitched...
...Colchester, Conn., one Edward West, 69, six feet tall, fell down a well. The well was 20 feet deep; in its bottom were five feet of water. Standing in this, Edward West yelled for help. As he did so, his feet sank slowly into the mud and the water rose slowly along his neck, up his chin. At the end of an hour, the water reached the mouth of Edward West. Unable to shout any more, in a few minutes he would be unable to breathe. As he waited for a slow drowning, Edward West saw the face...