Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Working with 32-to 65-ft.-long sedimentary cores taken from the bottom of the North Pacific, Geologist Bruce Heezen and his associates at Columbia's Lamont Geological Observatory carefully examined each one, slice by slice, for traces of residual magnetism and remnants of primitive life. Because sediment has settled continuously on the ocean bottom for millions of years, each core represented both a magnetic and evolutionary calendar; each slice was a thin but significant record of a brief period in the earth's history...
...interests, one of A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford's most earnest pursuits is graphology. Few persons, from financiers to fiancees, ever get close to Hartford without passing his handwriting test. Most of all, he likes perfectionists -people who make their d's Greek-style, from the bottom up after an initial downstroke. Yet as a businessman, Hartford sometimes works from the top down. He has emptied treasure into such disparate ventures as Show magazine (sold for a $7,000,000 loss), Manhattan's Gallery of Modern Art (annual deficit: $580,000), an automated parking garage and, inevitably...
...Glass Bottom Boat uses space-age wizardry and spy fiction to fizz up the formula for a Doris Day sex comedy. As usual, the man cast opposite her has to perform somewhat like the catcher in a flashy female trapeze act, and Rod Taylor doughtily goes through the motions of Doris-appreciation without losing his grip. As a combination scientific whiz kid and loverboy, Rod invents an anti-gravity device, heads a U.S. space center for NASA, goes home after launch to a more or less circular pad with a guest wing as roomy as a Holiday Inn. One unit...
...learn more about the lunar surface, JPL scientists decided to fire the small attitude-control thrusters located near the bottom of each of Surveyor's three legs, less than a foot above the surface. Seven different times, the thrusters fired jets of nitrogen into the lunar soil while Surveyor's camera shot pictures of the area near its feet. The pictures showed no clouds of dust-another indication that the lunar surface is firmly packed. By week's end, as the sun rose toward its apex in the lunar sky, shortening shadows and making it more difficult...
...honesty, respect for authority, and respect for other races and religions. Also near the top are the "desire to keep on learning throughout life" and such mental skills as "the ability to figure things out for oneself" and "to concentrate." But mathematics beyond simple arithmetic rates near the bottom of the list, presumably because few adults require such skills in their own lives. Similarly, at the very bottom of the rankings is the ability to speak a foreign language. Surprisingly low rankings go to such goals as willingness to participate in civic projects and-even below appreciation of good food...