Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Missing is its air of fairyland, all but missing its marvelous moon-drenched poetry. But largely missing too are Hermia and Helena and their supporting cast of bores. What remains are the comic ad-ventures of Bottom and his fellow bumpkins, culminating in the uproarious production of Pyramus & Thisbe before the Duke. To many in the first-night audience, Shakespeare seemed almost as good as Billy Rose's Aquacade...
Since the Yale match is a ten man affair the bottom four positions are of decisive importance. Three Seniors and one Sophomore will probably fill out the team. George Goodwin '39 at number seven has good ground strokes and a strong overhead. He and Art Brooks '39 make up the third doubles team; the latter plays number ten in singles. Bill Everts '39, who easily defeated the number one player of M.I.T. last Saturday, and Homer Peabody '41, first on last year's Freshman team, will occupy the eighth and ninth positions respectively...
Submarine Torpedo Boat H. L. Huntley (1863) by Conrad Wise Chapman. One of the submarines built by the Confederacy during the Civil War. "She could be submerged, but had a nasty trick of plunging to the bottom and drowning the men within...
Submarine Canyons. Modern methods of exploring the ocean bottom by echo-sounding have disclosed several huge undersea canyons. One of these submerged gorges, lying off the Hudson River's mouth, is 130 miles long and its lower end lies under 7,500 ft. of Atlantic Ocean. One theory has it that submarine canyons were cut during the Glacial Age by surface rivers. This could have occurred only if the sea level was then nearly two miles lower than it is now - a presumption difficult to account for, even allowing for water drawn into the great Glacial Age ice sheets...
Polls, surveys and public relations agencies all show that institutions are increasingly conscious of the individuals related to them. Every-day problems of every-day individuals are the essence of broader institutional problems, and in order to get to the bottom of a social situation, it must be reduced to its lowest common denominator,--the individual. On this point the Grant Study is truly in the spirit of the times...