Word: bottomly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...spite of Mr. Miller's direct imputation to the contrary, intelligence can never be sure of itself, both because it can never delve to the bottom of its facts, and because, being a human attribute, it is subject to the intermittent rule of human fallibility. To proceed on the unproved theorem that intelligence can consciously change the world is so great risk that it is justified in proceeding with the caution which Mr. Miller deplores. Until someone discovers a genuine criterion of truth, intelligence must become accustomed to what Mr. Miller calls the "infamous waste and cruel suffering that...
...championship, which I shall endeavor to illustrate. Last year Chicago won the Big Ten Championship, although the Maroon success was due to three tie games and only two victories. One of the tie games was with Wisconsin, which did not win a game, and consequently was at the bottom of the list in standing. Yet they tied the Conference champions. Two years ago the Badgers achieved a 42-0 win over Indiana. Notwithstanding this, the conference system of percentage gave Indiana a place two or three places above the standing of Wisconsin, despite the Hoosier institution's overwhelming defeat. Another...
...heard the noise of a motor above them early on the morning that Ames disappeared. Searching parties found nothing. Last week a boy, one Harry Dobson, 15, found Ames on top of a peak called Nittany Ridge, four miles east of Bellfonte. The plane lay in a tree, bottom up; the man dangled from the cockpit. He had been dead ten days. Pouches of mail lay scattered underneath. They were put on board a train...
After the submarine had been at the bottom 113 hours (72 hours is supposed to be the safety limit for men within such a ship), Rear Admiral Christy announced: "Reluctantly and sorrowfully we must all concede that there is no longer a possibility of human life existing in the flf-61." He asked to be allowed to give up attempts at rescue and begin salvage operations. Secretary Wilbur nonetheless directed that the rescue work continue...
...criticism and almost as many remedies have been offered through the press by men interested in educational affairs. One recent writer believes the trouble to be that universities are spending billions for buildings and giving only loose change to professors. Another believes that college entrance requirements are at the bottom of the accumulation of woes. And now comes Abraham Flexner in the Atlantic Monthly for October who avows that the trouble lies in the fact that the term university has no definite meaning in America as it has on the Continent and in Great Britain. It can mean almost anything...