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Word: bottome (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only Tuesday's Dudley-Eliot the mars the record of the four leaders, since both the Deacons and the Bellboys boast unblemished slates. At the bottom of the ladder are Adams, Leverett and Winthrop, each of which have lost four straight games, and have failed to get so much...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RAMBLERS, ELEPHANTS DEADLOCKED IN TOUCH | 11/3/1938 | See Source »

Author Roberts leans heavily on Semmes's autobiography, gives no clearer picture of Semmes than of the times. For all his tributes to Semmes's greatness, the raider is likely to be remembered as the destroyer of the graceful clipper ships that carried with them to the bottom U. S. hopes of becoming a leading maritime power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rebel Raider | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

...number of Jack and Jill for a predominantly illiterate public, children aged ten and under. Only addition to the roster of Curtis magazines since 1911 when the Country Gentleman was purchased, and latest product of the Curtis Co.'s ambition to service the American Family from top to bottom, the November issue of Jack and Jill (40,000 copies) runs to 48 seven-by-ten-inch pages, illustrated with single-color drawings, price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Jack and Jill | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

...Wurtele, a onetime navy officer and chief engineer of the Federal Barge Lines, who put it together on his sugar plantation in Pointe Coupee parish. Built of steel channel beams welded to a tractor, the machine has hydraulically adjusted, sharp-edged disks which cut the cane at top and bottom, handling 15 to 20 tons of cane per hour, has four-inch rubber cleats on its tires which enable it to negotiate deep mud. According to one eyewitness report, it "cut sugar cane from ten to twelve feet tall . . . stripped it, topped it, bunched it in piles and collected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cane-Cutter? | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

Nothing slows up a ship like barnacles on the bottom. Last week the U.S. Maritime Commission agreed that nothing slows up a ship line like barnacles on the top. Giving final approval to a deal whereby the Commission took over the devalued Dollar Steamship Lines, Inc., Ltd. (TIME, Aug. 29), Chairman Emory S. Land, with the bluntness of an old sea dog, put the blame for the Dollar Lines' unhappy state squarely at the door of its former owners. He snapped: "They adopted every conceivable device to drain the earnings and the working capital from the company as rapidly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: Barnacle Bill | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

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