Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...metals and moisture had deduced that the muscles contained electricity. Volta examined the theory of "galvanism" and traced electricity, not to the muscles, but to the mixed metals and moisture. He piled pairs of silver and zinc discs together, with moist cloths between and a wire connecting top and bottom discs-the first battery. Napoleon called him to Paris, sent him home laden with honors...
...Canton government is sewn through from top to bottom with able young men who received their preparation in the United States. Only three years ago the Canton government like its sickly rival at Pekin was in financial confusion. Today, in spite of almost insuperable difficulties in the way, the budget balances, the armies are well paid, large sums are spent in effective propaganda. A Harvard man did that...
...TIME, I know that you are experts at explaining matters clearly with a few words - hence my appeal to you. E. H. ALLFREE Ironton, Ohio Let Subscriber Allfree read p. 12 of this issue to his club. - ED. May Marry Sirs: There penetrate are to some their things bottom so - if deep I they cannot have any, which I doubt. One of these is the principle upon which you decide what marriage notices shall and shall not appear in TIME. I give it up. Suppose I should take a notion to marry - would I be likely to get the same...
...Usually it is hours before a long shape, bronze in the bright blue water, moves slowly in over the bar. Other slow shapes follow, circling the buoy cautiously. Chunks of "proud" beef, on six-inch hooks, chain leaders and lines like halyards, wait for them on the bottom-usually wait for hours. . . . In the garden of a Nassau hotel there used to be the jaws of a hammerhead shark, with a placard: "Abandon hope all ye who enter here." A more appropriate exhibit would have been the jaws of a large barracuda (sphyraena barracuda), sharp-fanged "tiger fish" of West...
...very same friends. So Lawyer Connell learns his lesson, makes a good resolution just before he goes out on his last questionable trial in behalf of his sister's betrayer. Everybody has a heart of gold. The Willard Mack type of melodrama always has a popular sentiment at the bottom, coated over with reliable gags like a little "inside stuff" on the ways of men of the world. Sometimes the hokum is worked into effective theatricality, when the play "gets across with a bang." Honor Be Damned seemed to "get across" at the first night. Playwright Mack made a speech...