Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discussing the problem. Professor Raymond Pearl of Johns Hopkins University describes an experiment which he conducted with a pint milk-bottle, a supply of yeast and banana agar, and about a dozen flies (genus ). The food supply of yeast and banana agar was put it the bottom of the bottle and then the flies were enclosed, and the whole kept at a uniform temperature for about fifty days. During this time the flies multiplied so that the milk bottle--representing the United States--could not hold them all, nor the food supply give sufficient nourishment. The population, so to speak...
...This is true," said President Little is conclusion, "not only on the athletic field but in every branch of activity that demands earnest effort, such as college publication, dramatic activities and debating. This last I think to be an especially good intellectual developer. The process of getting to the bottom of a subject--and you can't do that without a good deal of hard work--is a good steadying influence on the mind and reasoning powers. So long as a student can keep above board in his work I think his other activities should not only be permitted...
...prologue before the beginning of the play proper, Andrew Carlton '16, a Harvard quarterback; and Mary Stevens Blair, a Fenway divorcee, appear in the realm of King Mud at the bottom of the Charles River. The King refuses to release them from drowning until they have amused him by acting a Shakespearian tragedy with a happy ending...
...that college graduates are too finicky--they want white-collar jobs and don't care for the sweat and the muck that are not dissociable with some kinds of hard work. Clerical employment appears congenial to them; the grind and the grief of mechanical engineering does not. At the bottom of Mr. Edison's gravamen against the collegian is his disinclination to work. He says a man is set for life at twenty-one, and if he is a dullard then, a dullard he will remain to the end of his days...
...decorations consist of two oblong panels, arched at the top, and in plain view from either the top or the bottom of the main staircase. They are uniform, in shape and design, with the three windows that flank the stairway. The light, coming freely from both sides, gives the visitor ample illumination to study the figures with care from the balcony, which is on a level with the paintings. In Mr. Sargent's other Boston murals, the lighting and position are such that careful study is not convenient...