Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...half hours six strapping men stood on the coffin lid, held it at the bottom of the pool until Mr. Houdini telephoned that he was getting numb. Extricated, too weak to move, he explained that he had conserved his air supply by taking little breaths. His comparative conditions were as follows...
...Metropolitan Open Golf Tournament, after beginning the final round three strokes behind small swart MacDonald Smith , small swart Gene Sarazen regained the three strokes and three more, seemed to have the crown in the bottom of his immense bag. Then, on the last two holes, came a three-putt green and a fumbled approach, and he and Smith were tied...
Late on the night of Monday, June 21, there remained about an hour's work for the divers to make the S-51 entirely ready for raising. All eight pontoons had been floated off the bottom but with only sufficient buoyancy to insure that they would not settle down again...
...explicitly state that the pumping of a small amount of air into the lifting pontoons on the day in question was but a preliminary action, not intended to produce the disastrous raising of the bow, which actually resulted from an unpredictable and unexpected relaxation of the sea bottom's grip upon the S-51. To Captain King thanks for making clear this point. The remarks attributed to Captain King by a correspondent present at the event and subsequently printed verbatim by TIME were: "We've done everything we can. Two months of it and we're tired...
...litter of four squirming puppies whimpered at the bottom of a pail which Mr. Mazarak tilted carelessly, spilling them into the hole. Whistling, he scraped and shoveled loose earth upon them, tamped it well...