Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problem puzzled General Electric's Dr. Theodore Marton until one evening when he was playing with his son's stand-mounted toy dog made of beads. When the bottom of the stand was pressed up, the string threaded through the beads relaxed and the dog collapsed; when it was released, the strung-together dog was pulled into shape again. Why not use the same simple principle in a tether? So Marton built a new space line of interlocking aluminum balls and collars, all strung on a central cable. When the cable is loose, the tether is completely flexible...
...bottom of the seventh, Houston, who broke a leg playing baseball this summer, was hit in the face by a pitched ball. He was reported doing well last night in the infirmary, but he may be out for several games...
Within the University, departments like the food services must remain individually within the black without outside assistance. "Each tub stands on its own bottom," says Hurlburt...
...last week's election, Kirk declared: "We're going to clean out the old crowd and bring in a new crowd. It's bad from bottom...
Nine miles off Alaska's Kachemak Bay, Skipper Gene Cameron and his two crewmen maneuvered the 40-ft. Kathy C. along a string of buoys and hauled crab pots, one at a time, from the bottom, 100 ft. below. By day's end, the trawler's tanks were crawling with 6,624 lbs. of Alaskan king crab, which were promptly delivered to a Wakefield Seafoods, Inc., processing plant. Such pickings, by Kathy C. and a fleet of 40 other crabbers, have made Wakefield's founder, Lowell Wakefield, the leader of the fastest-growing segment...