Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These words at the bottom of an executive order were the authority. As a result, on July 1, the Bureau of Mines, all except two sections, will no longer be part of the Department of the Interior under Secretary Work but will be part of the Department of Commerce under Secretary Hoover, himself a mining engineer...
Brown, who has been a leading soloist in the University Glee Club, had planned to go into operatic work, but the chance which has been offered to him to get into musical comedy at the top instead of at the bottom, has temporarily, at least, interfered with these plans...
Finally, in spite of their warlike exteriors and their ruthless destruction of fences and instructors, Yale freshmen are at bottom quite tractable. When the merry-making was at its height, with Mr. Bangs at the bottom of the pile, someone said: "Willie, go to your room!" Willie hesitated--and was lost, for the voice said: "William, go to your room this instant, do you hear? or we'll call back the crew at Gales Ferry!" And William fled with contrition in his heart; and the most successful Yale riot in recent years had come...
...about them. If an inquisitive shark or surly moray sidled up, the monsters shuffled silently over to a cage near by, entered, fastened the gate behind them, dumbly gave back stare for stare through the wire mesh. From time to time, the monsters exchanged signs and left the bottom, risingly slowly and erect like dead fish on hooks. At the surface, they clambered to the bosom of their parent-the S.S. Arcturus-shed the globes from their heads, burst out talking-Explorer William Beebe to his associate Prof. W. K. Gregory-about the submarine scene they had been observing. Also...
...Saturday when he routed Ingraham of Exeter in the round before the semi-finals 6-1, 2-6, 7-5. This upset ruined Exeter's chances of victory. Andover failed to prove very powerful and merely succeeded in snatching fourth place, thus landing St. George's at the bottom of the ladder...