Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scrabbling at the bottom of a great pit 50 ft. deep, the diggers bared a necropolis of 200 graves which they ascribed to the Jemdet Nasr period, nearly four millennia before Christ. Despite the pilferings of ancient vandals, countless beads of lapis lazuli, carnelian, crystal, shell, marble, chalcedony and gold still encircled the necks and hips of crumbling skeletons with tightly bent legs. Up two long flights of steps carved by sweating natives in the clay walls of the pit were carried 770 vessels of alabaster, gypsum, limestone, diorite. and some of copper, all buried long before the Patriarch Abraham...
...Winning all five of these possible game would give the Crimson an average of .750, enough to go into a three-fold tie for the championship of the League. The reason for this mathematical tie is that Cornell. Pennsylvania and Columbia all have scheduled encounters with this same bottom-place triumvirate of Yale, Dartmouth, and Princeton. If playoffs of postponed games don't upset this balance, the Mitchellmen have still at lest a paper chance of the pennant. The chance isn't too good a one, but judging by records so far Harvard ought to be able to take...
...education desirable to the outstanding schoolboy. President Conant, in attempting to abolish the supremacy of the "Harvard" type student over the more nationally representative scholar, representative in geography as well as in wealth, has done nothing to remove these antithetical classes. He merely proposes to put those on the bottom onto the top, leaving the lazy-industrious, grinding-brilliant, and privileged-deserving dichotomies intact. There is every reason to believe that far from blending with and stimulating "the 50-percent of the student body . . . called the Harvard community" the stipended scholars will be a distinct and imposing group...
...Grand Canyon, Ariz., when a fractured leg trapped H. W. Moulton in a canyon bottom, rescuers hoisted his stretcher high above their heads, toiled along a river bed for 36 hours, sometimes up to their necks in water, lugged him to safety...
...appears to be but another step in the formation from the bottom--for the most part, these men will be instructors--of the new Harvard Faculty that is to replace the one which is soon to be a thing of the past. It is the foundation stone for the new revision. Perhaps, to some, the significance of 20-odd appointments may seem slight, but even such a minute addition as this, since it is a concentration of outsiders indicates that President Conant will not be satisfied with graduates of Harvard College alone. He has taken the world as his province...