Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After reading the article beginning at the bottom of col. 2, p. 21 of TIME for April 19, I am led to wonder whether the writer of that article has ever been in California...
...believed strongly that one of the best ways of learning baseball is to watch it as played by experts. The Boston Nationals yesterday not only showed the Harvard nine how ball is played, but also undertook to give the league-leading Giants a lesson. The lowly Braves, at the bottom of the race, downed the New York invaders...
...with good reason. For if the upper middle class, or even all of what could be termed the middle class, were subtracted, the total population of the nation would remain substantially intact. The proletariat remaining contains millions of city dwellers drawn largely from foreign lands, sunk at the bottom of the social scale, and intellectually nourished on simple tales of virtue and sordid tales of vice. These form their gossip, their excitement, their cultural horizon. It is the pictorial papers that have recently thrown this class into relief and emphasized its importance. Three pictorials have thriven in the city...
...finished his law course, I would tell him to start at once and to start as a professional politician. In politics, as in sport, the old maxim holds, 'a third rate pro is an over-match for the best of amateurs'. He will have to begin at the bottom. Politics is no different from any other profession. You cannot start at the top. I have had many friends who at one time or another thought they would like to enter politics, or 'public service' as they generally preferred to call it. Too often they have decided that they wanted...
...Beneath this proposal lay the principle so often propounded by champions of "the small liberal college." The effect desired was much like the scheme which is being worked out, from the bottom up, at Claremont Colleges (Monterey, Calif.), in the creation of whose first unit, Pomona College, Harvard men have taken active parts. More interesting: the actual details presented were identical, save for one important exception, with the celebrated "quad" system which the late Woodrow Wilson sought, 15 years ago, to apply to Harvard's associate, Princeton, and which got him "kicked upstairs" into politics. Woodrow Wilson, thoroughgoing theorist, wanted...