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Word: bottome (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...college styles AS THEY are really GOING to be worn IN the not so very DISTANT FUTURE WE HAVE a few very pertinent SUGGESTIONS to make, AS IN all matters of such GREAT IMPORT we SHALL BEGIN at the BOTTOM and work up (a steam...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: THE CRIME | 11/9/1927 | See Source »

...Vanderbilt Clinic, Manhattan, early in 1925 displayed a device made for him by Dr. Harvey Fletcher and Clarence E. Lane of the Western Electric-American Telephone & Telegraph laboratories. The apparatus consists of a small cylinder about the size of a man's pipe bowl. From the bottom reaches a flexible rubber tube which at will is attached to the opening in the cripple's throat. From the top extends a pipe stem, intended to bs held deep in the mouth. The cylinder contains a vibrating diaphram of rubber. As air is breathed over this diaphragm a sound results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mechanical Larynx | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

...powerful touch football team of the Staplers Club overran the Fourth Estate aggregation yesterday to take a 30 to 12 victory, thereby moving up to second place in the league, and dropping the Fourth Estate to the bottom of the standing. Games today will be played as follows: the Staplers Club vs. the Trident Club, Kappa Sigma vs. Sigma Alpha Mu. Alpha Sigma Phi vs. the Fourth Estate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOURTH ESTATE FALLS BEFORE STAPLERS CLUB | 11/2/1927 | See Source »

...attitude of the Harvard man is as difficult to make clear as it is to excuse. His place on the collegiate ladder either approximates the top or the bottom. There is a clear alignment in this difference of rating. On one side are Harvard people, on the other a majority of the rest of the world, hardly a satisfactory division of opinion. But the fact remains that while he is theoretically inclined to view with disfavor such a position, he is quite as likely to practice not a little pride in it. The paradox is easily understandable and as closely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AND ANOTHER THING | 10/22/1927 | See Source »

...barely attained the pre-War level. He does not add that the Soviet authorities took over Russian oil fields five or six years ago with equipment almost completely destroyed by forces with which Deterding is not entirely familiar. Soviet money was used to reconstruct the industry almost from the bottom up to its present level, and this reconstruction required about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Doomed? | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

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