Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alan Epstein '43 is directing the comedy which stars Hal Fleming '44, as Wintergreen, and Rod Nordell '46, as Throttle bottom. Gloria Rockwood, Sally Chamberlain, and Eleanor Hall from Radcliffe will act in the feminine leads...
...Wake had a few days of glory left. The Japs were in Malaya, headed for Singapore. The Prince of Wales and the Repulse-pillars of British and U.S. sea power in the western Pacific-were gone. People at home were saying that the whole U.S. fleet was at the bottom of the Pacific, and profane Admiral King was saying to his colleagues at the Navy Department...
Dying Weather. Mountains, mottled green, yellow, red and grey, tower thousands of feet into the air, drop precipitously into the emerald green Salween, called by the natives Wu-ti Ho, the River without a Bottom. In the jungles with the Chinese were leopards and tigers, pythons that swallowed whole live hogs, monkeys that stole soldiers' food, wolves that howled at night and tried to steal dead soldiers. In the river, said the natives, were little fish with hides thicker than leather; bigger, leather-skinned.fish whose mouths opened and shut like folding doors. Some of the natives, ceremoniously neutral, stalked...
Fighting Weather. By last week the winter sun was creeping down into the bottom of the gorge. The summer rains were over. Nights brought relief from the terrible, choking heat. It was fighting weather...
...technique," readily got permission for famed Photographer Edward Steichen to photograph it in action. Came the day, and Steichen disposed his assistants high in the amphitheater with flash bulbs. The patient, a woman, had hardly arrived on the scene when Erdmann opened up her abdomen from top to bottom with one neat slice. Suddenly, in the rafters, the photographer's assistants lost their lunches and their balances. Steichen gave up for that day. Next time he fortified himself with troops who had been "blooded." After Erdmann's usual greetings to the assembled throng-he always gives a special...