Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...publication of Aug. 4, 1930 wherein is a picture of myself and a really gorgeous column of fiction. No doubt you printed what you thought was right but you have my word for it-for what it is worth-that there is hardly a true statement from top to bottom...
...been investigating the municipal government. From the outset Boss Curry had resisted this inquiry as a piece of partisan politics. As a matter of party duty his Tammany henchmen blocked, balked, thwarted and nullified the committee's efforts to probe the scandals of New York to the bottom. Now Boss Curry was summoned to explain and justify his opposition...
Wichita is an excellent place for goiter experiment. The region was archaically the bottom of a sea. Its soil contains much iodine. Goiter is consequently rare. In that propitious environment he fed animals with food low in both iodine and calcium. The animals did not develop goiter. Instead, their thyroids atrophied. Then to iodine-deprived animals he gave large quantities of calcium-containing foods. At once they developed goiter...
...visible to the outsider are countless other details which make the Akron unique. The keels, for instance: instead of just one along the bottom, from nose to tail, the Akron has three-one under the top of the envelope, the two others along the sides, about a quarter of the way up from the bottom. Through each keel frame runs a triangular catwalk, the upper one giving access to the safety release valves above the helium bags. The lower ones serve as corridors to the engine rooms, airplane hangar, crew quarters, galley, messrooms; leading forward to the mooring apparatus...
...Chicago) were blown out; the summer decline in automotive steel buying had set in strongly.† Last week's rise, slight as it was, in the face of all these unfavorable factors may well have been a portent that steel production has reached the irreducible minimum, the rock bottom below which no depression can sink...