Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Creek Park while his wife waited in their car, hale George Brinton McClellan, 67, three-career man (New York City's one-time Mayor and Congressman, Princeton professor, author), namesake son of the famed Civil War General, tried to cross the narrow creek bed. slipped on the concrete bottom, breaking his leg. For half an hour before his wife heard him he lay half under water, unable to rise, calling for help...
...suburbs until a hard-boiled society girl overcomes Mr. Raft. At the same time Sylvia Sidney's jealous husband breaks out of jail and goes to the house in the suburbs prepared to kill his wife's paramour. Here matters become complicated but the mud sinks to the bottom of the vortex, and Sylvia Sidney and George Raft miraculously emerge, triumphant...
...spread far & wide. Throughout the U. S. 279 banks had reopened for business on the certification of the Treasury. New money had begun to circulate. Industry started hopefully up again. The U. S. gold supply, returned in masses by hoarders, rose by leaps & bounds. It looked as if the "bottom" was really being left behind...
...composed of two semicircular vanes on an axis-in cross section shaped like the letter S. As the plane moves forward, air pressure causes the rotor to revolve backward. That action, combined with the forward movement, produces low pressure on top of the rotor, increased pressure (lift) on the bottom. If the motor should quit the rotor continues to spin in descent, the lift force stretching the plane's course into a long glide. Unconsciously Designer Hatlestad had employed the Savonius windmill principle.* His scheme is not to be confused with the Flettner rotor or recently publicized paddle-wing...
...School was appointed trustee of bankrupt Insull Utility Investments, Inc., after Calvin Fentress and William W. Wheelock had been disqualified by Judge Wilkerson because they were elected by the debenture holder's protective committee, supposedly partial to the Insulls. Dean Bigelow's feelings: "Begin at the bottom and work...