Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slightly changed seating system will go into effect with the Holy Cross game, HAA ticket director Frank O. Lunden announced yesterday. Under the new plan, tickets will be allotted in the undergraduate sections from top to bottom of each section, instead of down one section and up the next, as before...
...waited a long time. For three days he stayed near the plane. Then his fire got out of control, set the wreckage ablaze, charred his companion's body. He crawled painfully away, huddled near the bottom of the canyon. Two days later his lighter fluid gave out; he could kindle no more fires. He rationed his candy bars, quenched his thirst by scooping holes in a dry creek bed and waiting for water to filter slowly into them...
...Navy has had to sink the ships which survived Bikini. Last week the submarine Skate and the transport Crittenden were destroyed during landing maneuvers off Southern California. Next month the heavy cruiser Pensacola and the destroyer Hughes will be sent to the bottom. Two years and three months after Bikini, all four were still radioactive...
...ideas on what was "subversive" were pretty well fixed from the beginning. Just a couple of months after the new committee had gotten underway, Thomas bitterly assaulted the Federal Theater and Writers Projects. He claimed that they were "infested with radicals from top to bottom," as doubtless they were. What was more, Thomas said, the projects were links "in the vast and unparalleled New Deal propaganda machine...
...mere form of recreation. Sports are compulsory all year round for every man, on the proven theory that good athletes make good officers. The authorities have found that five times as many cadet officers come from the top ten percent in physical aptitude as from the bottom ten, while almost all maladjustments come from the physically inept. The cynical believe that West Point's uniformly excellent athletic teams are a cause, rather than an effect, of the theory behind them, while heaven knows how many battered opponents have been left to wonder if their defeat wasn't perhaps the result...