Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crashing a pull may close this door, hermetically sealing the pilot as if in a diving bell, with freedom from danger of fire or explosions. . . . Everyone knows that in a fall in a hydraulically operated elevator the force of the shock is absorbed as the elevator strikes the bottom of the shaft. . . . My plane might have been falling 5,000 ft. instead...
...anyone who ever worked for a newspaper or wire service the number "30" has a special meaning. At the bottom of a page of editorial copy it indicates the end of the piece. Most frequently it is encountered in telegraph-reports. Years of use have made it a symbol to be woven into obituaries and floral offerings for deceased brethren of the Press. But whence came the term? Frank T. Owen, 47 years an employe of the Utica (N. Y.) Daily Press, canvassed his friends far & wide, compiled eight more or less plausible theories. Last week Editor & Publisher reported them...
Although a considerable amount of the filling placed in the vicinity of the Longfellow and Cottage Farm Bridges was obtained from excavations in various parts of the city, the filling now is largely being taken from the bottom of the basin. Borings were taken at 500 foot intervals each way over the entire extent of the basin to determine the character of the river bed and the depths of the various strata. In general, the bottom consists of a layer of mud and silt, under which is a layer of gravel, and below this is clay or hard...
Dunster and Lowell excepted, Eliot was the only House to be newly constructed from top to bottom. This fact, coupled perhaps with the dignity of the Eliot name, was responsible for the extraordinary number of applicants for membership in it. The heads of the House made the most of the opportunity offered. It is probable that even apart from its extra size, Eliot has a slightly larger number both of Dean's List men and of social luminaries. The advantage, however, is not unqualified. The effort to obtain the best "cross-section" of Harvard talent has resulted, perversely enough...
...generally takes me about eight weeks to build a shell, and the total cost is $900, although when we have shells built, they cost about $1500. When it comes to accidents to shells, it is singular to note that it is the experienced men who step through the bottom, and not the novices, simply because the former are careless and too sure of themselves. A University cox is also generally more apt to get in accidents while on practice rows than a greenhorn; a few years ago a University cox ran his boat right up on the float so that...