Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Year's Day the official Soviet newsorgan, Izvestia, confidently predicted that J. Stalin's new decrees will break the peasant's strike, speed the wheels of industry. Front-paging a nearly lifesize sketch of the Dictator whose left arm extended clear across the bottom of the page, Izvestia captioned and clarioned: AHEAD, COMRADES, TO NEW VICTORIES...
...bottom of Long Island Sound, close to Manhattan Island, sea-exploring Dr. William Beebe last week slapped at a wayward fish, caught a clam and a starfish, without getting his trousers wet by the cold, filthy water. A new-type, little submarine demonstrated for the first time by Simon Lake, submarine pioneer, enabled Dr. Beebe to make his gesture...
...newest Lake product is 22 ft. long, 6 ft. wide, weighs 10 tons, carries a crew of two, has room for two more. Attached to the bottom are sprocketed wheels which enable the vessel to trundle over the sea bottom, under floating structures. A manhole in the craft's bottom opens when internal air pressure exceeds external water pressure, enables a diver to walk outdoors or an investigative Beebe to make comfortable, direct observations of fish life. The device can move a short distance by its own power. But ordinarily a mother ship will tow it to the site...
...there was scarcely an important Japanese print left in Japan. Wall Street collapsed, and Tokyo dealers began quietly to buy. Today, even with the collapse of the yen, rare Utamaros and Yeishis bring far more in Tokyo than in New York. Brokers know that when U. S. stocks hit bottom in July the first big buying orders came from Paris, London and Amsterdam...
Katharine Cornell is of more than average height. Her broad, mobile face is ruled off at the bottom quarter by a large, loose mouth which can be as horrible as a conventionalized Grecian mask or can twist up into one of the most appealing smiles on the U. S. boards. Her eyes are as heavy-lidded as Tallulah Bankhead's. not from cinematographic languor but from a ceaseless brooding contemplation. She now wears her dark, slightly wavy hair shoulder length and behind her ears. Her friends call her "Kit." She is precious in the care of her voice, does...