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Word: bottome (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bound together by their common passion for the courage of the gamecock, the coast-to-coast cocking fraternity ranges from millionaires to moochers. Top crust are the socialite members of exclusive cock clubs who hold tournaments on their estates for a pedigreed handful of their friends. Bottom crust are the bands of shady promoters who operate in sinister back-road barnyards or city hideaways- sometimes traveling in a circuit with a portable pit that folds up as simply as a bridge table. But 90% of the U. S. cocking fraternity are plain, everyday citizens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Secret Sport | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

Last week, however, not only Oklahomans but the rest of the U. S. sat up and took notice when it appeared that Oklahoma City schools were odd not only at the top but also at the bottom. Haled before their high school principal for persistent hooky-playing, Milton Walser, 19, and Manford Ishmael, 18, airily explained that they had been busy leading a blackshirt movement to establish a new political and economic system in the U. S. by "bloodless revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Odd Oklahoma | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

Thatcher stitches the bottom of the new finger tendon to the large master tendon in the palm of the hand. With careful exercise, said Dr. Thatcher, natural flexion is usually re-established within six weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Patching | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...Before Depression 80% of graduates got jobs immediately, but at its bottom in 1932 only 65% of men and 52% of women did so. Teachers, engineers and lawyers had the hardest time getting jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Realistic Yardstick | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

During his recent fantastic but successful electioneering campaign, self-styled Technocrat Frenssen continued his latest method of making his living-peddling coffee from a tricycle. Last week he was still peddling coffee, displayed on his tricycle a sign reading: "Electors, I thank you from the bottom of my heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Technocratic Victory | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

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