Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make room for the scientists, their bulky equipment and stores, the Graf's normal crew was reduced from 41 to 30 and the cabin radically remodeled. The ship's outward appearance, too, was altered by the addition of a large rubber pontoon bottom to the gondola, for sealanding...
Such was the price wheatmen in Texas and Oklahoma as well as Kansas had to pay for their bull-headed refusal to heed the Federal Farm Board's plea to reduce acreage. Over & over had they been warned that the bottom would drop out of their staple market if they persisted in overproduction. Now they were literally reaping as they had sowed...
Last week the old shaft was re-opened for repairs. School was out but officials were hastily summoned. Crouched at the bottom of the shaft, by its side a jackknife, a pair of work shoes, a few shreds of moldering cloth, lay a dusty skeleton. The skull was cracked. It had been a youth of from 16 to 20 years old. It had been there perhaps ten years. That was all: none could remember any disappearances or accidents. Many students had come & gone...
...which might be of profit to you to hear. But as nature has withheld this gift from me, I content myself with telling you how very glad I am to be here, how very pleased I am to have been entertained by you, and to thank you from the bottom of my heart...
...November 1914 she fought a single-handed engagement with three Russian predreadnoughts, had her bottom ripped open by two submerged mines. But the Sultan Selim did not sink. She limped to Constantinople where German engineers built cofferdams around her, patched her up and sent her to sea again where she promptly bumped into another mine. In 1917 she was severely bombed by British aviators. Battered but indestructible, the Goeben-Sultan Selim remained afloat. In 1918 with the Breslau, the patch-bottomed Sultan Selim sank the British monitors Raglan and M 28. She was mined again and beached by her commander...