Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have to wait that long. High up through the peaks and gullies of the Atlas Mountains swung the troop train of 14 cars. It had been raining for days. The roadbed was soggy, treacherous. Between Zelboun and Turenne the train jumped the rails, hurtled 250 feet down to the bottom of the rocky ravine...
...observed that ''the world is getting better, this country is getting better, and even Chicago is getting better." Asked about specific securities, his most frequent answer was "I am bullish on that." Asserted Ralph Wilson, vice president of Babson's Statistical Organization, "Business has struck bottom...
Oxonian & Cantabrigian readers may be annoyed at his pretended assumption that he finds it impossible to distinguish between the two universities, is constantly getting them mixed up. A turn-of-the-century diplomat, Author Baring says he found the diplomatic service split from top to bottom over the question "as to whether papers should be kept folded, as had been the habit in the 18th Century, or flat." When the more modern school seemed to have won out, "a certain Ambassador of the Old School was appointed . . . and had them all refolded again? the work of several months...
...number of important symptoms indicate that the bottom has been reached in prices, and that all that is necessary is to give the flywheel a push and the economic machinery will spin of it" own accord...
...fond of a cup of hot sake (rice whisky), has a fine collection of Chinese silk paintings and likes to sing old Japanese utai (folk ballads) in the garden of his home with a group of cronies. Only to patriotic Chinese do his black-socked feet in their peg-bottom sandals look like cloven hooves...