Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...escape from the submerged 54, the men had first climbed up into a barrel-like chamber on the deck called the "trunk." A door in the "trunk's" bottom was closed, water was valved in to equalize pressure, an outer hatch was opened and the "survivors," in bathing suits and "lungs," rose swiftly through 40 feet of water...
...vessels lie on Lake Nemi's bottom. Centuries of slime cover them, and rocks that have slipped from the steep sides of the Alban crater which contains the lake. One of them, the smaller, is certainly Caligula's. Treasure hunters since the 15th century have tried to raise the barge, un successfully and to its great damage. Some years ago one adventurer yanked loose a lead pipe. On it was an inscription which referred to Caligula. The float was decorated with marble, mosaics and carved woodwork...
...hydroairplane has a broad V-shaped bottom which flattens toward the stern, a Sea Sled inverts the V, also flattens toward the stern. Both are built to slide along the surface rather t h a n t o p l o u g h t h r o u g h t h e w a t er. *A name derived from electric launch comp a n y, h o l d i n g c o m p a n y o f E l c o
...desperation characteristic of a fury. My damage is a scratch, about three quarters of an inch in length, on the third finger of the left hand . . . and three buttons torn from my vest, which any tailor will reinstate for a sixpence. His loss is a rent from top to bottom of a very beautiful black coat, which cost the ruffian $40, and a blow in the face, which may have knocked down his throat some of his infernal teeth for anything I know. Balance in my favour $39.94. ... I never will abandon the cause of truth, morals and virtue...
...from the point of view of the academicians, psychopathology is no science, and never will be, and hence it is damned. The kernel of it all is that the blue print of the mental underworld which it submits to our attention is so compromising to us all that at bottom we recoil. Psychopathology is, like "un bon petit diable", always up to mischief, and hence may be counted upon to infuriate the disciplined thinker on the one hand and the hundred percenter on the other...