Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President had until Friday to act; he had to think fast. Republicans waited coolly at the bottom of the falls...
From Top to Bottom. But the Bulwinkle-Reed debate produced one distraction. It came from New Hampshire's peppery Charles W. Tobey, an opponent of the bill, who indignantly reported an encounter he had had with three railroad lobbyists in the Senate dining room. Said Senator Tobey: "I walked to their table, and said 'My compliments to you, gentlemen.' I said, 'I understand you called me a son of a bitch, and consigned me to hell. . . .' I said, 'You are crooked, sirs, from top to bottom. . . .' I walked away...
...books like an extra pocket. Since 1820, Eton boys have worn black, in mourning for George III. Only boys under 5 ft. 4 in. wear Eton jackets and wide Eton collars; when they grow bigger they graduate into tail coats and narrow collars. Etonians must always leave the bottom buttons of their waistcoats unbuttoned, say "absence"' when they mean roll call, and talk a jargon that new boys study from a glossary, may not furl their umbrellas unless they belong...
When they reach a fast-flowing stream with a gravel bottom, the mated pairs dig a shallow nest by moving the stones with their suckers. Then male and female attach themselves side by side to a large stone. As soon as the eggs are fertilized, the adult lampreys...
...printing text at the top of the page and vocabulary at the bottom, then cutting a quarter-inch trough in between, Burnshaw had created two books with one binding, in a "Dutch door" arrangement. The student can look up words in the free-swinging pages of the dictionary below without turning a page in the text above. Burnshaw thinks his invention ranks with "the tip on the shoelace...