Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...above the Grand Canyon. Observers wondered whether a man whose greatest quality of tact was a stubborn silence, often ill-timed, would now fit the circumstances so as to be impressive. After regarding the canyon for several minutes, the President wisely sighted a telescope on the opposite side, the bottom of the canyon, birds wheeling below...
...just ordered a change in course, and for a horrid second, thought he had run aground when the France, with nothing but a limpid swell around her, listed with violent suddenness. Captain Aubert remembered his soundings of a moment before and knew the France could not possibly have touched bottom. This flash of certainty was verified as the ship's sudden list reversed itself, became a sharp roll. Looking overside, Captain Aubert beheld the sea in a cold boil, an unaccountable churning that rolled the France steeply twelve times. Then all was calm. The France steamed on in peace...
...military importance. They had heard how he ventured down under the Passaic River's surface in one of his first models, with a boy to steer while he himself manned the pumps. When craft failed to reappear, divers had rescued Inventor Holland and the boy from the river bottom. The imperfect submarine had been hoisted up, dragged ashore, abandoned. Inventor Holland's late fame had obscured the failure of his first experiments. The Passaic River had changed its course, piling silt upon the abandoned hulk which, when salvaged, will now rise to the importance of a major exhibit...
...explosion. The French Plongeur of 1863 was 146 feet long, driven by compressed air motor. The significant features of the Holland experiments were the in troduction of a gasoline engine and of internal ballast tanks to admit and lower the ship's buoyance so that she could bs steered bottom-ward by horizontal rudders. The Holland type craft was first adopted by the British Navy...
...published parts of a research report from the University of Michigan, which contained suggestive findings for college-entrance authorities to ponder. It was not surprising to learn from this report that students who had done well in high school had done well in college, or to hear that "the bottom 20% [of the group studied] might have been barred from entering college to the profit of all concerned, including themselves." More disquieting was the fact that the descendants of American-born grandparents stood about half as well in their studies as descendants of foreign-born grandparents. Also, ". . . the sons...