Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swum till he came to the bottom...
...result is a phonetic "alphabet" showing the timing, the pitch, the overtones, even the delicate emphasis of each spoken sound. The streaks and blotches near the top of the strip represent the high-pitched elements; those near the bottom, the low-pitched. A trained eye can easily read this "visible speech...
Cellar dwellers Lowell and Dudley fought hard yesterday to seee who would remain at the bottom of the intramural standings. Both teams, winless, remained so when the game ended 0 to 0, with neither side having sufficient strength to score...
Marital Prospects. In Lafayette, Ind., Richard C. Steinmetz of the Chicago Fire Prevention Bureau said that unhappy wives often set their houses afire. In Atlantic City, Dr. Clifford R. Adams, Pennsylvania State College marriage counselor, announced that morality will hit bottom by 1955 and four out of every ten marriages will end in divorce...
...offended them deeply by killing a helplessly maimed calf. The Jains are humane to women & children but take a dim view of mankind in general: billions of years ago humanity was very good, they say, but in less than 40,000 years from now, all men, having reached the bottom of a "bad" cycle, will be less than one foot tall...