Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stanley Baldwin, Britain's first business Premier, continued to receive many congratulations on his speech quashing the Political Levy Bill. The London Times said, ". . . his success, which was very remarkable, was due at bottom to his own qualities, and in particular to that broad instinctive sanity?sometimes verging on sentiment, but never on pettishness?which always directs his outlook on national affairs...
...hill-fires, barking seals, giant redwood trees, the good and evil winds of heaven, Indian spirit-gods moving by night, mystical wind-torn cypresses, condors, vultures, flowers and seaweeds, soaring California mountains, the illimitable bosom of the Pacific, the Pacific groundswell, ponderous granite boulders, vast shore plains, the unthinkable bottom boundary of the oceans. He hurls his images or bites them out; he rumbles, casts spells, croons, soothes, claps out thunder, flashes naked lightning, dreams serene or troubled beauty?and with his inmost eye, contemplates the closed, unchangeable cycles of life...
...with reservations, after a long debate (in which Senator Copeland of New York filibustered in a speech eight hours long, wandering over the floor and talking to anyone who would listen) the Isle of Pines Treaty, acknowledging Cuba's sovereignty over that island. The document bears at the bottom the following words...
...only equipment needed for the game, in addition to a football, is a pair of regulation goal posts with broad strips of canvas stretched between them. This canvas is about a yard wide and the bottom of it is slightly more than six feet above the ground. In it are three holes 18 inches in diameter...
Beebe reported continuous rough weather. He described taking his first specimens of marine surface-walking insects-a Sargassum fish with fins like hands-and a mass of its eggs which are now hatching in the aquarium of the Arcturus. In spite of the weather, bottom dredging was possible to a depth of three miles. A half-inch cable, containing seven strands of 19 wires each (133 wires in all), was paid out from the drums for three hours, while the steamer drifted in the trough of the swell. The steamer proceeded at about three knots an hour. It then required...