Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elder Davison, who served as head of the Red Cross during the War, had novel ideas about a public career for his son. He believed that he should go into politics, starting at the bottom and working up, giving generously of himself for the public good, but not depending on his job for a livelihood. His father's will left $4,500,000 as an endowment for Trubee's public career...
...then walked aft along the starboard catwalk through the wardroom to the galley. A turn to the right and he was stepping perilously above the Akron's cavernous plane hangar where hung a spidery little plane on a flat hook atop the centre of its wing, threaded through the bottom rung of a metal trapeze. The plane's propeller was already turning...
...charged. The Earth's surface is negatively charged, the atmosphere positively. Whenever a lacy branching showed in photographs of the flash, Dr. Simpson has taken the direction the branches pointed as indicating the negative pole. But his theory has been that the top of the cloud is negative, the bottom positive...
...other hand, Dr. Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1927 Nobel Prizewinner with Arthur Holly Compton) has claimed that the top of the cloud is positive, the bottom negative, and Nebraska Wesleyan's Jensen last month backed him up in the Physical Review. Sitting at night in the window of a high campus building long-jawed, slow-spoken Professor Jensen has been taking photographs of lightning flashes for seven years using a large-size news camera with an extra large lens. For the past two years, with his son's help, he has also been using an insulated metal deck connected with...
...States declared its independence from British domination. July 4, 1932 was the day when Franklin Delano Roosevelt made known his surrender to Tammany Hall. . . . This seems to me to be an inauspicious beginning for Governor Roosevelt's 'new deal'-unless he's dealing from the bottom of the pack...