Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With his country eyeing the bare bottom of its dollar barrel, Sosa Molina was in no position to order U.S.-made arms. But he would not go home emptyhanded. With the Army Department's O.K., he would probably get permission to manufacture U.S.-model weapons in Argentina...
...monthly's biggest asset was an intangible: the talents of its 366 owner-contributors. But there had been no brilliant, tough editor to put those talents to work effectively. In the 16 months since '48 had started (as '47), it had bought too much bottom-drawer stuff, because it could not afford the prices other magazines paid for top-drawer pieces. The magazine had improved notably after Editor Richard E. Lauterbach, former LIFE staffer, took over seven months ago-but not enough to withstand the spring newsstand slump. It was running only a little above its advertising...
...wager came close to costing Robinson Brainard '48 his life Thursday, when he sank to the bottom of the Blockhouse swimming pool after swimming three lengths under water...
Brainard completed the 75-yard stint, which required almost a minute and a half, but when he rose to the surface for air he was unable to breathe, and sank to the bottom unconscious. Henry S. Birdseye '50, loser of the bet, rushed for aid from a pool supervisor, who dove in to recover the victim...
...bill of rights as one indication of progress: "The returning veterans ... have not demanded a welter of practical applied courses. In the field of science in particular, there has not been a rush to courses in gadgeteering, rather a wholesome inclination to try to get to the bottom of things scientific...