Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hans Hartman of Manhattan is a man who goes to the bottom of things. He has cogitated the fact that more than seven tenths of the earth's surface is submarine territory, on the average only three or four miles submerged but in some places far, far deeper. All this territory is unexplored, save here and there by blind plummets and groping dragnets. So for years Dr. Hartman, financially independent, has experimented-aided by that bathysophical enthusiast, the late Prince of Monaco ; by colleagues in the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences ; and by the U. S. Navy- with...
Last week despatches from London announced that Dr. Hartman had a perfected "diving bell," was off with seven fellow-scientists and a secretary, for test drops to the bottom of the Mediterranean. The Krupp works at Essen had built him a steel cylinder guaranteed to resist sea-pressure at 15,000 ft., equipped with magnifying submarine telescopes instead of windows ; with revolving saddles, one above the other, for observers; with a periscope, radio, telephone, ozone generator, carbon-dioxide filter, temperature and pressure instruments, powerful actinic illuminators, a deep-sea cinema camera and two and a half miles of steel cable...
...first Dr. Hartman's explorations will be archaeological-in the watery streets of Paleopolis, earliest Greek colony in Italy; now on the deep bottom of the Bay of Naples; and at Jerba, long-drowned port of Punic Carthage...
...Bolshevism is not at the bottom of the Chinese anti-foreign movement, it is a menace capable of endless trouble in China which can be offset only by the unified action of the Powers. The greatest danger is that the Chinese Government, being met with nothing from the Powers (mainly Britain) but chilly demands for justice with indemnities for the Shanghai outrages (TIME, June 15 et seq.), will listen readily to the friendly advances of Moscow. Undoubtedly with this in their minds, the U. S., Britain and Japan agreed to a compromise at Tokyo aimed at calming China, while...
...sagging between them along the ocean floor, last week had a bite. The cable tightened, went taut, snapped. Whatever it had snared was ponderous. Repaired, the cable caught again and soon Diver Fred Neilson of Brooklyn clamped on his helmet, dropped overside like a sinker, 213 feet to the bottom. When he followed his stream of bubbles back up to the surface, he told his comrades that they had indeed found the Merida, a ship sunk 14 years ago in collision. She was lying on her starboard side, he said, still well preserved; he had been able to read...