Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy announced this week that it has finally solved an old nautical problem: how to keep barnacles off the bottom of a ship. The solution: a new plastic paint which makes bottoms so slick that for at least two years no barnacle can get a foothold...
Barnacles are a serious hindrance to a ship, slowing it down and making it clumsy to handle. Normally a ship must have her hull scraped every six to 18 months. But the new paint, developed by the Navy's Bureau of Ships, keeps a ship's bottom whistle-clean for two to five years. A brown, syrupy compound of cuprous oxide and synthetic resins, it is sprayed on hot (300°F.), forms a coat ten times as thick as ordinary paint...
...began by frankly noting what everyone had wondered about: "I hope you Will pardon me for the unusual posture of sitting down . . . but I know you will realize it makes it a lot easier for me in not having to carry about ten pounds of steel around the bottom of my legs and also because of the fact that I have just completed a 14,000-mile trip...
...eleven good German divisions had been fighting the Canadians tooth & nail. On the Roer, only six bottom-of-the-barrel divisions, backed up by two armored outfits, had faced the U.S. armies. These hapless rearguards provided most of the 50,000 prisoners which the Allies took in little more than a week...
...artist, "Reggie" Marsh studied painting at Manhattan's Art Students League, made his reputation in the late '20s with Hogarthian studies of city low life ("Well-bred people are no fun to paint"). His Strip Tease was easily, by the width of a broad bottom, the raciest picture the staid Corcoran had ever thus honored. It showed a slightly idealized, if muscular, ecdysiast in mid-routine. The variously brooding faces of seven balding burlesque-addicts include the artist's own, in foreground (see cut). Artist Marsh found the inspiration for Strip Tease in a Union City...