Word: bottomed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...become aware that there is a war going on; some of his colleagues are still in the '90's. Mr. Davis signs a story which looks as if it had been written for a Christmas number some 25 years ago, found lacking in seasonable cheer, and consigned to the bottom drawer, whence it had suddenly and mysteriously risen. It describes the struggles of a brave little woman, and ends, "Then quietly, she walked out into the night." One is consoled by the knowledge that she couldn't possibly walk out anywhere into the night without running into bevies of distressed...
This is a very serious result. Von Tirpitz has sent to the bottom in one short year three times as many ships as have been put in commission by our own ship yards and those of England. The unfortunate disputes and delays in our shipping program have been partly responsible for this result, which has been so favorable for the U-boats...
...command. College men who can be employed but a few months must face the dirty, disagreeable tasks of production along with their less favored brothers. Incidentally, there is no better clarifier of the college man's theories about capital and labor than a few months' hard work at the bottom of the industrial ladder...
After that another anonymous poem all over the bottom of a page--always these poems! Then a hoax story--Italian; then a poem; then another hoax story--prepschoolian; then a poem ending...
...Industrial Workers of the World have recently assumed a position of alarming importance in the newspapers throughout the country. Yet very little is known about them by either editor or reader. It is generally recognized that this most insidious of our present labor groups is at the bottom of a large part of the strikes and the willful destruction of property that is taking place throughout the farming and mining country west of the Mississippi. But beyond stories of isolated outrages and the seizure of their leaders and documents by the government, the public knows almost nothing of them...