Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...serve in the Caribbean. Fire broke out in her stern. It raged forward, reached and sent rocketing some explosives, injured two fire-fighting seamen, got completely out of control. The firefighters had to withdraw and watch the withered Mayflower burn and sink until her bow rested on the bottom of the Delaware River...
There is only one way out of the gravelike calm into which the Green and Gold ship has meandered. Abolish all dying activities form top to bottom for a semester or two. In the interim, put a student-factual-alumni committee to work to plumb the depths of student opinion, as revealed in comprehensive question-naires, and objective research into the values of certain activities from the standpoint of life-interest, as manifested by percentage of participation and measure of growth of participants in them. Let this committee make an exhaustive study of every field, and upon the basis...
...house she has rented. All the devices have been used before and the efforts of Director Roland West, Chester Morris and a good cast to give them distinction are largely wasted. Typical shot: people falling down an airshaft but saved from death by a pile of laundry at the bottom...
Died. Frank Edson White, 57, up-from-the-bottom president of Armour & Co. (meats), vice president of Armour Leather Co., a director of Continental Illinois Bank & Trust Co., Stock Yards National Bank, American Surety Co., and Chase National Bank (New York); by falling from a seventh-story apartment; in Chicago. Night before, at a dinner at the packing plant restaurant, he had fallen accidentally from the speakers' platform, hurt his head. It was not believed that the injury was serious, but he complained of feeling unwell. His friend Treasurer Philip L. Reed of Armour & Co. left him alone...
...anxiously to see whether the national sugar industry on which everything depends will be "saved" by the Chadbourne plan now being negotiated in Berlin (TIME, Dec. 15 & 29). Plan: Cuba and all other leading sugar countries would restrict output, hope thus to raise the price of sugar (now scraping bottom at 1.4 cents...