Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...defeating the Lincoln's Inn Society in four matches out of five yesterday afternoon, the University squash team has firmly secured the lead in the Massachusetts state tournament. The next and last meet is scheduled with the Harvard Club of Boston which is next to the bottom of the league and should cause but little trouble...
...state championship is at stake. The University team has a two point lead over the Law School society. The latter must therefore win four of the five matches to move into first place. The afternoon's results will practically decide the title, for both teams play clubs at the bottom of the league the following week, which closes the tournament...
...have little to complain of beside the stinking meals, the flint-like bread, the sour beer and cider of those days. Pie was introduced, after many riots, and we are told that, such was the durability of this dainty, thrifty students were wont to fasten their share to the bottom of the table with a fork (after forks had been introduced!) against leaner times...
Possibly the most arresting feature of the old entertainment was the disappearing diving girls. These girls ducked under and into one of an elaborate system of diving bells set in the bottom of the tank like inverted tumblers on legs and all connected by an elaborate system of electric communication. This whole mechanism has been discarded. It was in a way symbolic of a generously supplied-if somewhat ponderous-novelty...
...Italian archeologists planned to secure government support to raise and salvage two large ancient Roman ships at the bottom of Lake Nemi, in the crater of an extinct volcano. The vessels have been examined by divers, and were probably luxurious houseboats used by the Caesars...