Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nevertheless they quarried out the plaster, came to the first step, then to other and removed blocks of masonry. Finally they came to the bottom and found that their surmises were correct. There was no tomb entrance at the foot of the stairway. Perhaps, after some great ruler had had the cut made, he decided to be buried elsewhere. Perhaps the ancient king had died prematurely, had been disposed of hastily and the stairs filled...
...Darmstadt, a playwright, one Alfred Doeblin, presented a piece called Lusitania which showed the ship torpedoed, sinking, the passengers cursing, the adventures of the hero and heroine at the bottom of the sea. Nationalists cat-called, booed, stamped with their feet...
Last Year the Princeton hockeyists, competing for the first year under Coach Ramsey's fuselage, finished at the bottom of the big three ranking. With the former Olympic player's methods being more thoroughly mastered by the Tiger the Princetonian are now threatening for the crown held...
There are various ways of "teaching" art. One way is to provide a student with a large tome in which the pictures of various masters are reproduced in color, with a tabloid criticism appended at the bottom of the page. The students regard the picture, memorize the criticism. Once or twice a week they listen to a lecture by a professor and take notes...
...Nonrigid airships (balloons) are constructed with no metal framework in the gasbag save a ring at the bottom to which fabric, valves and passenger basket are attached. The semirigid dirigible ("blimp") employs a keel or spine of structural metal usually aluminum, to stiffen the under side of the envelope, support cabins, motors, crew. The rigid (Zeppelin) type of ship has a complete skeleton of struts and girders, with hoops articulated laterally inside its spine and ribs to form separate gas chambers when covered with fabric inside as well...