Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Society Islands, and spent three months selecting natives for his cast. Six months ago he returned to Hollywood. Last fortnight he was killed when his car ran off the road some miles north of Santa Barbara, rolled down a 30-ft. embankment and landed on him at the bottom...
...made to understand," the article runs, "that individuals differ as widely in their educational needs as they do in their physical appearance." The popular fallacy that every man should go to college, that unintellectual, though not necessarily unintelligent, men ought to have academic training is doubtless at the bottom of the inconsistencies of some college curricula...
...work in Polar regions, culminating in (1928) flight from Point Barrow to Spitsbergen; awarded gold medals by American, Belgian, Danish, Cuban Geographical Societies (the Cuban society last week gave a medal to Georges Claude, French scientist who experimentally generates electricity from the heat differences between the surface and bottom waters of Matanzas Bay); silver medals by German Geographical Society and City of Berlin; gold medal by Norwegian and French Aeronautical Societies and Inter- national League of Aviators...
...very great gifts, damn him most heartily for the innumerable stained glass windows which he designed. They were confected from a La Farge invention, opalescent glass (for which he was made an officer of the French Legion of Honor), a substance that gave the effect of light through the bottom of a soap dish. His best friend was Henry ("The Education of") Adams. With him he made a voyage to Tahiti, lived on the island at the same time as that morose genius Paul Gauguin, whom the two U. S. elegants successfully avoided...
...wise man who can convince him of the earth's rotundity. Many wise men have tried, but wiser Dr. Voliva refuses to be shown. He argues that if the world were round, trains and boats could not make the uphill grade of its curvature; that people at the bottom would tumble off. When he heard that Commander Byrd planned to explore the South Pole he sent many warnings that the rim of the world is a hazardous place. Now he says that Commander Byrd was indeed lucky that a big wall of ice hemmed him in so he could...