Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They will study the bottom deposits for former changes in depth and climate and process of sedimentation...
Quite often the tube must be dropped 2,000 to 3,000 fathoms in order to reach the bottom. Because of the slow accumulation of sediment in midocean this tiny core of mud may represent thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years. Scientific interest lies in measuring the thickness of these stratifications of mud cores in order to determine former changes in depth and climate. Telegraph companies are particularly interested in this work, because they wish to learn how fast matter accumulates on the sea bottom in order to avoid laying cables in regions where the rate of deposition...
...fire broke out in the auxiliary engine room, jumped to the left wing, exploded the gasoline in the wing tank before the five men aboard knew what had happened. The four crewmen, led by Pilot Horst Merz, well aware that thousands of gallons of gasoline lay in the deep bottom tanks, seized fire extinguishers and attacked the great tower of flame that shot from the wing. They quenched it without the aid of volunteers who came scurrying across the bay in small boats from the Portuguese naval air station...
...Manhattan last week the American Statistical Association held a banquet, heard six noted statisticians attempt to predict the future of Business and the Market. Three of the speakers said neither the Market nor Business has reached a bottom; one said the present may be the bottom; two were vague...
...later it emerged again as a bestseller, led all non-fiction books for eleven months.* So famed grew The Story of San Michele and its author, Dr. Axel Munthe, that shrewd Publisher Dutton wanted to launch another Munthe book. Not having a new one handy he raised from the bottom, where it had been reposing out of print since 1898, Memories and Vagaries...