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Word: bottomly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through Leipzig as exhibitors at the Fair cut prices (and each others' throats) without stimulating any impressive volume of sales. Canny foreign buyers, interviewed by the Leipzig press, admitted grudgingly, "Prices are a little lower," held back their orders with evident intent to jump in when prices touched bottom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Oracles, Trade Fair | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

...game 20 years ago between New York and Chicago for the U. S. water polo championship, the star of the Chicago team did not get out of the pool. His body was found at the bottom. He was revived with difficulty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Water Polo | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

Producing from his pocket a dynamite bomb, the soldier slid it gingerly into the 4-inch pipe, lowered it slowly until it reached what felt like the bottom of the pipe. At 4:25 a. m. he lit the fuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bomb for a Bathroom | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

...brother Rufus Cutler. Its total cost has been estimated at $60,000,000, about $16,000,000 of which has been raised or promised. Because growing Chicago has little available land to give to the Fair, it is to be built partly on artificial islands superimposed on the muddy bottom of Lake Michigan, later to be turned into parks and playgrounds. The construction of this land alone will be costly. Two or three of the solid, honest buildings which the Wrightites advocate would use up the rest of the money, leave half the fair exhibits unprovided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Wrightites v. Chicago | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

...four-day battle was ending by prearrangement the Arkansas was hit by a torpedo and went to the bottom. Sinking, Admiral Willard flashed command of the Blue fleet to Admiral Reeves aboard the Saratoga...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Fleet Problem 12 | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

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