Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Enough Machines, Mines, Men. After ten years of hard times that shook the country from top to bottom, statisticians could count...
...tricks to attract the enemy, but in battle he proudly flew his own flag. Sometimes he had five or six boats gathered around him in various stages of sinking. He was so ubiquitous that many people seriously believed that the Germans named several cruisers Emden. He sent to the bottom more than 74,000 tons of shipping without killing...
Plymouth, Chrysler's popular-priced car, looks like the rest of the brood, is roomier (12 more cu. ft. inside), longer (117 in. wheelbase), flares out at the bottom instead of in. The two series, Road-king and De Luxe, sell...
...dated rhetoric of his contemporaries. What moderns can see, what his contemporaries missed, is that Thoreau meant what he said. He was, he declared, a "Realometer," working his feet "downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice and tradition, and delusion, and appearance ... to a hard bottom...
...show business, the barter idea sounded as crackbrained as opening a theatre at the bottom of a well. But farmers, housewives and hillbillies hitched up their wagons, armloaded themselves with victuals, and drove to town. All summer the actors ate hearty, and at summer's end the Barter Theatre showed a profit of $4.30 and two barrels of jelly...