Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lined gutter down the mountainside. Sleds ordinarily reach a maximum speed of about 60 m. p. h., gathering speed by riding high on the banks of its three dangerous turns- Whiteface, Shady Corner, Zig-Zag. The Colgate sled went a little faster than that. When it reached the bottom-still intact despite the missing bolt-its time for four heats was 7:57.31, a new U. S. record. Steersman Colgate, son of the late Soapman Gilbert Colgate, learned bob-sled driving in Europe. Closest to the Colgate team was the Adirondack Bobsled Club team, piloted by Donna...
...with the ice pack. Working fast, his remaining 71 men and women lugged food, scientific instruments, tents, clothing, records and baby on to the ice. Most important, they got off a little radio sending set with batteries. With a huge glop the Chelyuskin followed the chief steward to the bottom. Even before they set up their tents, the Russians radioed the bad news out. From North Cape, Siberia, 155 mi. away, 60 dog teams mushed off to Professor Schmidt's aid through a screaming blizzard. Rescue planes waited in their hangars for the blizzard's end. Next...
Stoutly the researchers defended their subjects as average citizens, in no sense "down-&-outers." Records of employed men tallied closely with those of the jobless. Why had they quit? After his survey of clerks trying to become executives; laborers, engineers; mechanics, accountants. Professor Paterson observed: "At the bottom of the sea . . . sharks perhaps are busy organizing the suckers into schools for the purpose of teaching them to become flying fish...
...World-Telegram, the New York Foundation, which had paid for an investigation begun two years ago, a grand jury which had recommended an investigation of the prison's "gross mismanagement" last year. Plain, however, was the fact that it took an anti-Tammany administration to dig to the bottom of Welfare Island's cesspool of corruption...
...same rink, while adoring home-towners cheered wildly. It was the Rangers' 400th game. These charter members had stuck together from the start, had helped win the Stanley Cup twice, had put the team into the play-offs every season, and, since last Christmas, had hoisted it from bottom to top of the National Hockey League's American division. At the end of the first period of last week's game, with the score 1-to-1, ceremonies took place. Diamond signet rings were presented to the famed forwards-Cook-Boucher-&-Cook; to Johnson, defense...