Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tower bases, which are at present being completed, have been constructed by fastening there steel I-beams together in the shape of a triangle, and bolting them to the bottom of the cement balustrade in the two east corners of the roof, at the north and south ends of the building...
Fishing from a yacht tender off Los Angeles, Julian Eltinge, female impersonator, struck a 190-lb. marlin swordfish, played it for nearly two hours, finally landed it. In the bottom of the boat the swordfish lashed violently, wounded Actor Eltinge in the abdomen, inflicted cuts upon other members of the party. Actor Eltinge was hurried to a hospital for an operation by Dr. Earl C. O'Donnell, one of his companions, who had been cut on the hand by the swordfish. Afterwards Dr. O'Donnell discovered that he had contracted bloodpoisoning...
...third day Pilot Louis Leigh of Maritime Airways Co. of Sydney flew his seaplane low over the muddy waters of Cobequid Bay, sighted the wreckage of the mail plane floating bottom-side-up. On the fifth day he spotted the body of Pilot Simon, red with Cobequid mud. One hand clutched a monocle. There was a fresh cut on the head. Physicians declared that Pilot Simon had died of exposure only a few hours before his body was found...
...familiar phrase "scraping bottom" was heard whenever businessmen last week stopped discussing the President's credit plan to talk about trade. Just as a man can cut his diet down only to a certain point, apparently U. S. business had reached the lowest possible level of consumption. While general business held at the same level (68.6% by one index) three big industries showed the following...
...walls of the exhibition room are placed the many things brought back from Little America. Glass cases are filled with specimens of Antarctic life and with pieces of equipment used in camp. There are condensed and dehydrated foods, clothing, including boots, gloves and outer garments, birds from the bottom of the world occupy their case: the small Adelie penguins, the mighty Emperor penguins, petrels and gulls. There is also a display of navigation and scientific equipment...