Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Most liberal seemed his evaluation of the companies' stocks: $80 for B. M. T. (now selling around $60), $50 for I. R. T. (now fluctuating between $25 and $30). Explanation for these prices was that they are undervalued, "prevailing at the bottom of a bear market...
...criminal cases the silent witness is called and comes forward with damning evidence no less than 13 times. In every case it is easy-going old Colonel Braxton ("a mind on him like a whip, suh!") who does the calling. Nothing fools him. He can get to the bottom of a murder, forgery, theft case by glancing at a pane of glass, a parchment, a piece of poplar wood. If you are tired of new-fangled fiction-detective methods, if you still have a warm spot in your heart for the school of Sherlock Holmes, you will give Colonel Braxton...
...bottom of the police scandal, Counsel Kresel subpenaed the records of 1,800 banks and brokerages, also 159 persons, most of them policemen but also including Christopher D. Sullivan, New York Congressman...
Harold Fowler McCormick Jr., nephew of the board chairman of International Harvester Co., was made Northwest district manager for the company. He has been working up-from-the-bottom since...
...McCann ($2).* Compilers Hunt & Chappell put up a blatant front of impartiality on the Wet & Dry question. At the top of every page they reprint some moral tale or verse from some such temperance sourcebook as No Gin Today, Anecdotes from the Platform, Temperance Annual; then counter at the bottom with recipes for drinks. The scheme, more ingenious than its execution, is helped somewhat by pseudo-Victorian pseudo-engravings by Artist John Held Jr. Like all rummagings in the attic, this one recovers some rare antiques; the full version of that affecting ballad, "Father, Dear Father Come Home with...