Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Governor Flynn, a Democrat: "Gas has been planted in an attempt to suffocate the Lieutenant Governor. I am going to the bottom of this...
...raise the academic standards of the college is a wise and necessary procedure; but the lifting pressure should be exerted at the bottom-during the first year-not at the topic. Then too, to use George Ade, "in uplifting, get underneath:" The manner in which the Divisional examinations are made out, and the alrenuousness with which they are marked are, after all, only the most external of reforms. What needs changing is not the student's scholarship, but his way of looking at scholarship. And that change can be brought about only by the lectures and adhereats of scholarship themselves...
...Astor group which had planned to build office and other business buildings right up Madison Ave. Thus the Astor's century-old instinct for profitable realty development collided with Mr. Morgan's fondness for his old-fashioned home and his determination not to live at the bottom of a lofty canyon inhabited by sales-managers, advertising-agents, and other insensitive neighbors. For the past ten years the two parties have fenced and litigated incessantly over the question...
...kept silence in order to learn the identity of the man who equipped her with it. Then he spits on his hands. The denouement might be illustrated by a diagram showing the stairs which the villain struck as he tumbled down them and achieved a broken neck at the bottom...
...government could inject a friend, or the son of a friend into the Consular or Diplomatic Service, without any knowledge on the part of such appointees of international questions or of any foreign country. Happily all that is changed, and no one can now get in save at the bottom...