Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With a "now-it-can-be-told" flourish, the Navy has let out the news that the most potent weapon of all against the U-boats were Wildcats, flying from baby flattops, and rocket-firing Avengers. In one six-month period, these planes sent 31 U-boats to the bottom, more than half of the entire total sunk by the Navy in that time...
...marshmallow, and practically written in Technicolor. Its setting swings between Britain's romantic Channel Islands and New Zealand, from 1830 to 1900. Its atmosphere is one of gentle domesticity, flavored with salty thrills of sea journeys and pioneering among the Maoris at the world's bottom...
...safer just to quote both sides and let your friends guess what was really going on, for then no one could accuse you of bias or unfairness. It would be a lot easier, too, for it might take you hours of digging to get to the bottom of the story. You would have to talk to your newspaper friends to find out what they had uncovered too late to print because the story had "cooled off." You would have to talk off the record to politicians of both sides. You would find some of your town's leading businessmen...
...Compos-A-Tune ($3) is an 18 in. by 7 in. cardboard rectangle with 16 twirlable dials arranged in two rows. On the upper eight dials the operator sets any rhythm scheme desired (from countless possible combinations) for the first eight bars of a tune. By twirling the bottom eight dials, and following the directions on them, he then discovers a suitable harmonic progression for the eight bars. Next, by consulting a table on the Compos-A-Tune, he learns what melodic notes harmonize with the chord progression, and can lay out a melody in the rhythm shown...
Totem Pole--At this quaint hideout were bottom men Mat Arsulich and Dale Waddell happy about the whole. Yes, this is one nice place...