Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...several days minesweepers searched vainly for the sunken vessel, plowed futilely back and forth through choppy rising seas. The Admiralty sent out divers and ships equipped with a recently and secretly developed instrument for magnetically detecting sunken masses of iron. The sea bottom was explored by every possible means. Then a startling announcement was made. The trouble it seemed lay not in locating sunken ships but in distinguishing the M-l from the many vessels sunk in that vicinity by the Germans! The sea bottom was described as "littered with ships," and despatches announced that the Admiralty had practically abandoned...
...owners recently tried to reduce wages to prevent loss of profits, but the mine workers had struck rock bottom in living conditions, and went on strike. It was then deemed necessary for the Government to subsidize the industries, by promising support up to 40 million pounds over eight months that operations might...
...meantime, before the work begins, we venture a couple of suggestions. The committee, when it is constituted, ought to be representative of the undergraduate body as a whole. It should contain one or more members drawn from each grade of the rank list. Too many undergraduate committees are "bottom heavy" from this point of view. Here is particularly a case where high-standing scholars should have adequate representation. Otherwise the committee's recommendations, whatever they may be, will be somewhat discounted in advance. And rightly so, for nobody cares what the lame ducks think about educational requirements which they have...
...note at or near the bottom of Column 2, Page 8, of your issue of the 19th in stant the statement, "Chief Justice Fuller, Confederate Veteran, the only Roman etc." Catholic Chief Justice, used to remark...
...Hunt '93, our business manager, was at the bottom of it. He arranged with Wheeler, who then ran a printing press at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Linden Street, for the use of his press. Mac and Ed (McCarter and Kneeland, for 33 years in charge of printing the CRIMSON) were there on the job to set type...