Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time will come, however, when the Album will be pulled out from the bottom of the pile to look up someone whose face has slipped out of mind. You remember him perfectly, of course, but you just cannot think what he looked like. And then you will probably waste three-quarters of an hour glancing over the pages. There is a peculiar fascination in doing this...
When George M. Cohan waves the American flag at the end of one of his plays staid men and stayed women are aroused to a tremendous pitch of enthusiasm. Therefore when "The Man Who Came Back" hits bottom in a low dive in Shanghai and utters the thrilling words that he is "Going to go back, every step of the way, and, by Heck, he's going to take Her with him", it is small surprise that the St. James audience think "he's. jist grand...
...dragging of the river bottom was abandoned at dark and the above developments gave a new aspect to the situation...
...massive buildings, terraces, etc.; a large enclosed court in which a game like basketball was played; life-size statues of Chac-Mool, the "Tiger King " of the Mayas ; a sacred well, 150 feet across and 70 feet deep, used by the Maya religious cults. In the mud at the bottom of this well have been found human skeletons - the most beautiful maidens were hurled to death here at annual festivals to propitiate the rain gods - and extraordinary relics of jade, mosaics, pottery, weapons, balls of copal- offerings brought to this Mecca by pilgrims from all over the Mayan world...
...first successful contour map of a portion of the ocean bottom has been completed by the hydrographic office of the U. S. Navy Department, and covers an area of 34,000 square miles on the west coast of North America from San Francisco to a point in Mexico. It will aid the study of earthquakes on the west coast...