Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...find work. Hanging on a ladder between box cars, he nodded. Suddenly he felt himself falling, grabbed wildly, caught a lower rung of the ladder. As he did so his left foot touched a spinning train wheel. The foot was pulled in and crushed between wheel top and car bottom...
...marched into Belgium the tramp of their boots could be heard in neutral stock exchanges. Investors in Great Britain and France in a financial panic dumped securities indiscriminately. On July 31, 1914, four days before England declared war, the New York Stock Exchange closed its doors to keep the bottom from dropping out of the market...
...third in 1918-19. Norway did well with fish and lumber to export to the belligerents. Norwegian steamship lines cashed in, paying big dividends and purchasing about a million tons of new shipping from the U. S. as German mines and submarines sent 829 Norwegian merchant vessels to the bottom...
...Faulkner's kitchen, four pieces of rubber tubing from Mr. Faulkner's garage. He filled the jar with sterile water, punched four holes in its cap and screwed it on. He ran one long tube from the oxygen tank through the cover and almost to the bottom of the jar. The other three tubes were stuck just far enough through to take the oxygen as it came off the water's surface. Function of the water was to moisten the sharp oxygen which might otherwise irritate the delicate mucous membranes of the babies' throats...
...crop island, St. Croix was hard hit when the bottom fell out of the raw sugar market and Crucians could no longer buy corn meal and salt fish to keep their fungee pots going. But relief cards, at first ignored as a white man's joke, soon brought an unprecedented prosperity. The Negroes, given canned goods, traded them for rations they liked better, for bright flimsy dresses, dime-store jewelry, tobacco...