Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago, when Hemenway Gymnasium was a secret Navy experimentation center, the uncoached Varsity squash team stood at the bottom of the Intercollegiate league, losing every single match played. Last year, Coach Jack Barnaby returned, and in three short months turned out a team that defeated every league opponent with the exception of Yale...
...their native tongues when excited. Mrs. Cowles believes in progressive education for the three-to six-year-olds-with the emphasis on carpentry, finger painting and other "creative" games. She hopes her pupils will also learn international understanding. Says she: "Maybe this is a way to build from the bottom...
Since rationing first began, during the war, one item after another has been plucked from the British stewpot until only a mess of boiled potatoes remained. Britons had been eating an average of five to six pounds of potatoes a week, but last week the bottom of the stewpot was beginning to show. Potatoes themselves, the No. 1 staple in the British diet, were rationed-three pounds per week per Briton. "If we'd done nothing," said Food Minister John Strachey, "some time in the spring potatoes would have run out, which would have been a catastrophe." Some British...
...meanwhile come back to town, takes an interest in her and promises to send her to college. But when her beau elopes with a belle of established parentage, the Hagen girl jumps in the local lagoon. The plot hauls her out but sends the picture to the bottom like a stone...
...cryptic note at the bottom of a page says, "It's a long trip, but they could have moved Bennington to the Belgian Congo and we'd still go--you're dating a woman of the world...