Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very steep hill. With me were J. L. Shute and Edgar Barrier, a Columbia graduate. The roadway was wet and I applied all the brakes we had to slow us up a bit. Naturally, 'Jezebel's' brakes burned out and we dashed down at terrific speed. At the bottom, we hit another car, demolishing it, and then flattened five concrete posts before, turning over in a ditch. Shute and I went out through the roof at the first collision, but Barrier was pinned down and had his arm broken...
...Nothing, or even less. For when I went to the girl, pardon the sentiment, of my dreams, did she fall on my neck and say, "Joe, you're human after all." Did she, I repeat? She did not. She said, "You poor fish, you made me bet my bottom dollar and several next to the bottom dollars against Boston college. I thought you knew something about football." So here's the end of Joe Forecast's little romance. Once more, and this time permanently, he will be a man's man and an accurate forecaster...
...college education makes a man unwilling to begin at the bottom and unwilling to begin at the bottom and work up after he has graduated, and that is the only way in which to become a really good business man. In the merchant marine, a man of 24 should be able to hold a responsible position and should not have to begin at that age. This is equally true in any other occupation, so that college really robs a man of four or five of the best years of his life. It is a mistaken idea that education will ever...
...other test pit gives indications of resulting in the same way as the first, with a layer of gravel occupying the first 14 feet. The foreman of the digging operations expressed himself as well satisfied with the straba revealed by the shafts. The fine sand at the bottom will form a good base for the concrete foundations of the laboratory, although it will necessitate the presence of several pumps during the early phases of the construction work...
...most men and women is to connect every new problem with something already silhouetted in their imaginations some principle that has already found lodgment there. Very few of us approach any new public question with open minds; or rather, we do it with minds that are open at the bottom only, not open at the top. Arguments and appeals to reason go in and fall right out again. The stereotype remains unaltered...