Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last Black Friday that is, March 13 when the Messrs. Jesse L. Livermore (Manhattan) and Thomas Howell (Chicago) loosed an avalanche of wheat and rye that proceeded right through the bottom of the grain market, Mr. Arthur Cutten (Chicago) was notably annoyed and the U. S. Department of Agriculture was somewhat alarmed (TIME, Mar. 23, 30, BUSINESS). Mr. Cutten was annoyed because he, the big holder of wheat and rye, was feeling bullish, and his enormous paper profits were being swept rudely into oblivion . Also , Mr. Cutten felt that the catastrophe had been timed purposely to do him injury, since...
...Story. Over a windy English heath and down a hill crept a rutty road. At the bottom of the hill, the road found, unexpectedly, a village called Shelton, with old elms and houses bulging into the lane...
Stephen Leacock in a semi-serious mood has looked askance at the present-day rush to the colleges as a too evident victory for the spirit of "go-getting" in American life. He thinks the desire to make more money is at the bottom of increased college attendance, and he doesn't like the tendency...
...three days the battle raged. One of the Black airplanes on reconnaissance was shot down. Two Blue destroyers and a minelayer unwarily came within range of the land batteries, and one of them was sunk. A Blue submarine caught sunning itself on the surface was sent to the bottom by a Black submarine tender . When the Blues pressed the attack, the umpires described the casualties as "very heavy"; in other words, the carnage was great. Tn the final attack, the Blues succeeded in capturing Haleiwa, a commanding position over the Pearl Harbor base. Promptly they were con ceded the victory...
...extent that when the villian raised his dagger, he cried "Look out." That was the triumph of illusion--and the theatre. Perhaps a mortgage hovered over that man's house, but for two hours he laughed and cried. He had touched the grand fact of human life, that at bottom...