Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wendell Willkie's son has no intention of repeating his father's mistakes. His father, an unorthodox campaigner and a scorner of political drudgery, began his Republican career at the top-and got elected to nothing. Son Philip, 28 and ambitious, is starting at the bottom...
Reality at a Click. The kind of art developed in Renaissance Italy seemed to be evaporating toward the end of the 19th Century, and at the bottom of the cup lay merely the dry brown sediment of academic illustration. Moreover, the most skillful academicians were unable to compete with photography. In painting, the illusion of reality required the laborious methods of perspective and chiaroscuro. With one click, cameras did the same thing more convincingly. For painting to compete as an art form, and to have something fresh to say painters had to find a new approach to their...
Both Army and Navy fell in defeat at the hands of the tennis squad during the Spring recess. Consistent play by the bottom half of the singles division enabled the team to inflict a 7 to 2 defeat on the Cadets and an 8 to 1 licking on the Middies...
Though the department had moved from its fusty old headquarters on Pennsylvania Avenue to a shiny new home on Washington's Foggy Bottom, had grown in the last ten years from 5,400 employees at home & abroad to 21,400, there was still some question about its capacity...
...main defense positions in Europe. The ultimate, the rock-bottom defense position, is contained within the triangle Scapa Flow-Trondheim-Calais, backed against Great Britain...