Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Augustus Swanson of Virginia, ranking Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee. A neophyte at international conferences, a Big Navy advocate, Senator Swanson, with his stringy mustache, corded eyeglasses and rather pompous airs, accepted because he does not have to work for re-election until 1934. Thus starting at the bottom of his delegation, President Hoover last week worked backwards to the top, appointed three more members...
President Hoover hoped to complete his delegation by drafting at least one Republican Senator to go to Geneva. Last week he thumbed down through the list of the Foreign Relations Committee, paused near the bottom at the name of Michigan's Vandenberg...
...businessmen will regret the end of 1931. Still fewer could look on the state of trade & finance last week with anything but thanks that this December was half over. October opinion was that business was "scraping bottom." Since then, bottom has sunk lower. Unfilled tonnage orders of U. S. Steel Corp., industry's major barometer, declined in November to 2,933,891 tons, off 185,541 tons from October, 9,250,000 tons below the record peak of April 1917. It was the first time since 1910 that these orders had gone below 3,000,000 tons...
...young student in "Crime and Punishment," murdered two old women through a Napoleon ambition to transcend all human values at a blow his final defeat was not attributable to the sinfulness of the act, but rather to his lack of fortitude in self-justification. Dostoevsky was not irreligious. At bottom he had a primitive kind of Christianity, which thought man became great through suffering. Furthermore, since man was naturally evil and irrational, there was all the more reason he should find refuge in the perfectness...
...foot wireless towers, mounted on either end of the roof of the New Geography Building on Divinity Avenue, have just been erected. Work was started on them last Thursday, after the two steel bases had been bolted to the bottom of the cement balustrade in the two east corners of the roof, at the north and south ends of the building...