Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...case of mortuary pottery, lent by the Peabody Museum. This pottery is prehistoric, having been discovered by the Mimbres Expedition sent out by the Peabody Museum from 1924 to 1927. These pieces were buried with the Indian. In each case a hole was knocked out of the bottom of the bowl, thus accounting for the popular term "killed pottery". In several examples the pieces have been found and reset in the bowl. This is the first time that any of the Mimbres Expedition pottery has been exhibited...
...succeed him. On January 29, 1907, Curtis left the House of Representatives and entered the Senate, of which Henry Cabot Lodge had been a distinguished member for fifteen years. Lodge had achieved a position third from the top of the Committee on Foreign Relations. Curtis began at the bottom of a committee which had no work and never met, the Committee on the University of the United States...
...during the war when he camouflaged an armed vessel as a Norwegian fishing schooner with the Count, himself, taking the part of the captain. Thus disguised the ship was able to proceed through enemy zones and sink hostile ships. He boasts to have sent 25 allied ships to the bottom without killing or injuring a man, a fact to which the many medals he has been awarded bear testimony. His adventures before the war when he ran away from home and worked his way around the world add to his numerous experiences...
...they are called, sea admirals do not want war. They, better than most people, know what it is like. They, sooner than others, must fight it. Blunt professionals, they demand serviceable instruments with which to do their duty when it becomes necessary. Permanent public servants, their philosophy is at bottom the working philosophy of the U. S. Navy, no matter how Congresses and Administrations help or hinder its expression...
...geography at Yale. They indicated that the most representative undergraduates, the most successful graduates from Yale and Harvard were the sons of missionaries; next came the sons of professors; third came the sons of ministers. Businessmen's sons were low on the list, farmers' sons at the bottom...