Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reached in with one hand. Feeling the touch of some clammy thing, a wolf or a corpse perhaps, he screamed "I am bitten," and ran furiously along the pier. A less timid checker then went gingerly up to the box and pried it open. In the bottom of the box, cold and still alive, was scatterbrained John Thoening. He said he had not eaten for several days, that he was very sleepy, that he had not bitten the hand which had been inserted into his box, but had shaken it rather, with friendly intent...
...restoration of a fallen dynasty, considerably more of one, in fact. At the start of every baseball season for the past ten years or more the cry has gone forth that the Red Sox have come to life again, but all in vain. September found them at the bottom of the column...
...small children more than once or twice a day. Then, when a child gets older he is sent away to school. He returns and finds his parents vaguely familiar, like the clock on the mantelpiece, and about as interesting as the 1913 volumes of the Atlantic Monthly on the bottom shelf of the bookcase...
...Margaret Sanger, president of the A.B.C.L., attributed the ousting of her organization to Roman Catholic "bigotry and usurpation of power." She said that Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith was at the bottom of it all, flayed him roundly in a public statement...
Experience of the workaday kind that might, like the coffee grinder at the bottom of the sea, go on turning out a man's salt for the rest of his life. An ordeal of caricature for both innocent and the guilty has been won by the swollen importance of undergraduate publication activity in the eyes of a self-conscious few. In reality these are outnumbered by the many who see it merely as one of the ways of learning his own possibilities. Such training may rarely produce vocational certainties and its specific usefulness is as various as individuals...