Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Insulin (for the cure of diabetes) is used hypodermically. It was originally discovered in the pancreas glands (situated at the bottom of the stomach near the vertebrae) of certain animals. (TIME, April 21, June...
...structure with arched spaces filled with mural decorations. The central theme is Christ coming to the Doom, or Last Judgment. Four of the spaces are occupied by subjects from the Apocalypse, while two show groups of persons gazing toward Christ the Judge. In the Apocalypse spaces there is a bottom band on which animals are painted in pairs facing a tree on a red background. Only three pairs remain: " Reynder and Ro; Wild Ass and Tarn Ass; Dromedary and Kameyl." Some of the Abbey pictures were painted in the time of Edward the Confessor (1050), some in that of Richard...
...considerable stir. The vessel was anchored off a reef when a severe storm broke. The anchors gave way and the ship drifted toward the reef. Faced with the loss of the ship, he deliberately scuttled her. Instead of pounding to pieces on the reef, she sank on a sandy bottom and was later raised and put in service...
...course of true love was not to run smooth by any means. In the big, wicked city, Myra interviewed her father's villainous lawyer, Scott Brantly. "Can you stand a shock- or several severe ones? Your father and your aunt are at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean," he announced. "Widows and orphans are execrating your father's name all over the land- he has made them lose their all." Pretty hard to take, all that, but not a patch on what was to follow. The wicked Brantly grew amorous. "His lips . . . resembled squirming purple worms...
Captain Robert A. Bartlett, who accompanied Peary to within 110 miles of the Pole, will spend three years in the Arctic, measuring air currents, charting the bottom of the sea, and gathering flora. His expedition is financed by an anonymous millionaire. Both Bartlett and MacMillan will carry complete radio equipment and will report their scientific findings thereby...