Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Animals adopt the structural formation of the surroundings in which they live for several generations. For instance: the octopus adopts the same texture and form as the sea bottom, the grasshopper assumes the characteristics of a blade of grass...
...apparent, therefore, that unless Government experts under the Department of Agriculture can shortly solve the weevil problem, the American cotton planter will face uncertain and precarious profits; while if the solution of the problem is long delayed, he will face international competition such as is at the bottom of the grain growers' dissatisfaction today...
Whether these six hundred were prompted to reply out of that secret, thrilling half-belief in the supernatural which crawls in the bottom of every man's mind, or, out of pure scientific interest "in little", the response should help out a good cause. Although table tipping and ghosts have largely gone out of fashion, the belief in spirits, or better, talking spirits, is stronger than ever. And where there is so much smoke, there ought to be a little fire. But Professor MacDougall has limited his study to the field of mental telepathy. Of this "though transference" there...
...Janet, which she takes with an understanding and ability worthy of actors far more experienced; and Madeline Massey, another of Professor Baker's former charges, is charming as Mrs. Rodney, although her gray hairs do not look quite natural. That "fisher of men", Claudia Kitts, who is at the bottom of a great deal of the excitement in the Rodney menage, is very well acted by Louise Gillis, and Ian Schuyler, who has perhaps the easiest of the major roles as Edgar Fuller, acquits himself perfectly as an "athletic glass-blower". But the whole caste shows an unusual degree...
...Premier Eleutherios Venizelos, Greek " Ambassador to Europe," was erroneously reported to be at the bottom of the Republican movement. M. Venizelos has always been (outwardly at all events) pro-Monarchist. His quarrel with the late King Constantine was personal, not dynastic. On the bare face of the situation M. Venizelos would be the last Greek statesman to condone any act which might alienate the " affections" of the two great Balkan Powers, in whose boundless political fields he has gamboled, with some effect, for nearly 40 years...