Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nineteenth century drawing room with men and women strewn about in various histrionic positions. A little man with flowing red hair was wandering about among them, muttering to himself and glaring at the Vag. Yet when he looked behind him, the Vag knew indubitably that he was at the bottom of a swimming pool, sans water, and above him were tier upon tier of weird looking people, perched on diving boards and the tiled edge of the pool, all tangled up with lights, wires, victrolas, and bells...
...Trail's magnificent past-a picture communicated by rare photographs of wagon trains, railway construction camps, settlers' cabins, scalped hunters (see cut), as well as by new accounts of the pioneers who moved like a tidal wave across the plains. From Independence, Mo., to Fanny's Bottom, Ore., the Guide points out characteristic scenes of staggering pioneer enterprise, as well as scenes of casual pioneer poetry...
Meanwhile the Vatican, already equipped with gas masks, selected a shelter in which the Pope of Peace will take refuge in case of air raids: a low, round, 15th-Century tower with walls 15 feet thick at the bottom, lined with steel...
Base of the conventional plowshare is an harmonic complex of two curves blending into one another. Because no machine could fit the contour exactly, these bases always had to be hand-polished. The "general-purpose bottom" of Oliver's new Raydex has a simple cylindrical curve which can be polished by machine, making production some 46 times faster and correspondingly cheaper. The conventional plowshare costs $4.25, will stand three resharpenings (about 75? apiece). Four Raydex points cost only $3.40, can be thrown away like razor blades and still save the farmer money as well as the trouble of finding...
Birmingham. Author Leighton likes Birmingham, Ala. least of his five cities. City of unkept promise, he calls it, with vast natural resources and the lowest per capita public expenditure of any big U. S. city-near the bottom in appropriations for education and public health, near the top in its murder rate. Author Leighton's explanation of its unkept promise: racial conflict, absentee ownership...