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Word: bottome (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...women of a state or other unit area take charge of prohibition enforcement," she urged President Harding. "Let them take charge from top to bottom, as an experiment, and see if women are not more zealous for enforcement than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Mrs. Pinchot Plans | 3/3/1923 | See Source »

...first performance of the Pi Eta musical comedy, "First Down Egypt" will be given at the Pi Eta Theatre tonight at 8 o'clock. The book is by R. D. Gerould '24, with a prologue by Andrew Carlton '16 staged in the realm of King Mud at the bottom of the Charles River...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PI ETA HOLDS "GRADS' NIGHT" THIS EVENING | 12/20/1922 | See Source »

...guided them across, and could have done such excellent work in hunting submarines. We built nearly four hundred of these little vessels in 18 months, and we sent 170 to such widely scattered places as Plymouth, Queenstown, Brest, Gibraltar, and Corfu. Several enemy submarines now lie at the bottom of the sea as trophies of their offensive power; and on the day that hostilities ceased, the Allies generally recognized that this tiny vessel, with the 'listening devices' which made it so efficient, represented one of the most satisfactory direct answers' to the submarine which had been developed...

Author: By Rear ADMIRAL Sims, | Title: REAR ADMIRAL SIMS TELLS OF EXCEPTIONAL WORK DONE BY COLLEGE MEN IN NAVY DURING WAR | 12/16/1922 | See Source »

...heard her unfortunate crew endeavoring to make repairs. Occasionally she would get her engines going, steam along a short distance, then stop, when continued hammering indicated further efforts at repairs. Additional depth charges were dropped, resulting in further damage to the doomed sub, which was now resting on the bottom and able to drag herself along only a few yards at a time. The listeners could follow these events as clearly as though they could seen, for every effort that involved a noise of any kind was registered on the ear pieces of the delicate listening instruments. All one night...

Author: By Rear ADMIRAL Sims, | Title: REAR ADMIRAL SIMS TELLS OF EXCEPTIONAL WORK DONE BY COLLEGE MEN IN NAVY DURING WAR | 12/16/1922 | See Source »

...unofficial Russian delegates, the loud shouting by Ismet Pasha for Thrace and the abandonment of the Capitulations, and Lord Curzon's John Bull-headed inflexibility as regards the Bosphorus have all contributed to stirring up the pool at Lausanne until it has become almost impossible to see the bottom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IN THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT | 12/11/1922 | See Source »

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