Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...receding stream, recovered 14 bodies-men, women and one infant. Some had smashed through windows to drown in the flood. Others had been trapped where they sat. One woman had died half out of the back window of a sedan which had landed on its nose on the bayou bottom...
...remote wilderness is peopled with fantastic dinosaurs, purported survivors of the Age of Reptiles (200 million to 60 million years ago). No one believes that such creatures actually live anywhere in the modern world, for one reason because its land areas have been too well explored. But the bottom of the sea has not been explored. Last week ichthyologists scratched their heads in wonder over completely authenticated reports of a fish, caught alive in December 1938, whose kind should have perished 50 million years...
Pure Hokum! . . . How can one (even an editor) "generalize" about America's million teachers? The range from top to bottom in the teaching profession runs the entire gamut of human ability from genius to moron (as it does in all professions...
...make structural adaptations to the available oxygen supply as to any other environmental circumstance. Frogs and toads living in oxygen-deficient waters grow abnormally large, those in oxygen-abundant waters abnormally small. South American lungfish develop extra gills when they go down to guard eggs on the oxygen-deficient bottom. Whales when diving supply oxygen only to their brains and their heartbeats fall from about So per minute to four or five...
...wrap a chicken they now stretch a latex bag over the top of a hollow metal cylinder. From the bottom air is withdrawn, sucking the bag in, until it forms a neat lining on the cylinder's walls. The chicken is popped in, air is exhausted from the bag, its mouth is closed. Then as the bag is dipped in warm water, it shrinks to fit skin-tight and almost invisible around the chicken...