Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Democratic list. A year later Underwood had transferred to the Senate. Just as he was about to step out on top Representative Rainey lost his House seat to a Republican, shattered his seniority record. In 1923 he was returned to the House and again started his climb from the bottom up through the Ways & Means. During his two-year absence "Jack" Garner, who entered the House with him in 1903, jumped ahead. Well may Representative Rainey wonder what his political destiny might have been, had he not lost one term out of 16. Even today only one "lame duck" (Mississippi...
...fifth floor, the progression of subjects gave rise to some speculation. Beginning with Archaeology and the Classics, it continues by way of church History to Folk Lore, Legends and Superstition. What puzzled the Vagabond was which end was the top and which the bottom. While he was still wondering the man who washes the floors (for the charwomen are long since departed) came and liberated...
...said that in 1924, the city government of Cincinnati was so rotten that there were holes in the streets. But by 1927, as the result of a reform movement, the government had been transformed into one of the best in the country. One of the men at the bottom of this reform movement was Murray Seasongood '00, who last night completed the Godkin series of lectures on local government...
...Greenland. Spitsbergen and Franz Josef Land may well miss them, for the little auk is a staple of their food supply, "Eskimo lollipops" as Curator Robert Cushman Murphy of the American Museum of Natural History calls them. In Greenland the Eskimos will beg the Goddess Nivikkaa, sitting at the bottom of the sea, to lift her lamp and let the little auks come up again...
...years. From a nick on the inner side of her shoulder blade he deduces the "murder." It may have been caused by a spear or arrow striking through her heart, through her right lung. She may have been crossing the glacial lake at whose bottom her bones were found. Perhaps she was on a raft or in a canoe, or crossing on ice. She was wearing shell pendants in her hair, around her neck. From her waist hung an apron of strung shells. A dagger of antler dangled from a thong. The Minnesota girl's bones might never have...