Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus last week spoke a happy, happy President as he squiggled ''Franklin D. Roosevelt" at the bottom of the biggest piece of legislation he had gotten from an adjourning Congress. At the signing ceremony Senators and Representatives who had helped to whip the measure through just as the President wanted it beamed their pride and approval over the Roosevelt shoulder...
TIME for May 29, p. 14, bottom of col. 3- "His [Daladier's] first move in office was to antiquate newspaper files throughout the world by shaving his mustache...
...Howe telephoned Director Fechner to make his own kit purchases without consulting the Army. He also signed letter -on Bureau of the Budget stationery- confirming the telephone conversation, recommending the "superior articles" but without mentioning Salesman Bevier or his product by name. President Roosevelt scribbled his approval at the bottom of the letter...
...bound about his head giving him an air of Attic dignity enhanced by the sweet serenity of countenance that he so often achieved of an evening. He lifted his glass to his right eye and held it there as if it were a telescope, gazing through its opaque bottom with great earnestness, the slow smile of the contented seer disturbing the placid melancholy of his round face. With deliberation he closed his right eye although continuing to hold the telescope in front of him. The eye should be blind, he thought. Never mind. It's a good half-Nelson. "Gentlemen...
This statement is grossly inaccurate. The F4, a vessel of about 280 tons, was lifted by sweeping cables under her while she lay in 304 ft. of water, and then, taking a strain on the cables, dragging her along the bottom till she had been dragged into about a depth of 48 ft. only, without even in this stage lifting her off the bottom. At a depth of about 48 ft. of water, being then practically inside the harbor, the dragging process went to smash, and to complete the job, the salvage officer built six pontoons which were used only...