Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While many of the visitors expressed skepticism to one another in polite whispers, Georges Claude explained the process to them. Great pumps are used to suck up cold water, 40º F., through a mile-long tube from the bottom of Matanzas Bay. Warm surface water, 80º F., rushes through other pipes into a large vacuum tank. When a liquid is kept under low pressure, it will boil at temperatures much lower than 212º F. The pressure in the vacuum tank, Dr. Claude explained, is low enough to cause the 80º surface water to boil, give...
...passive in the face of the present difficult situation, as vile anti-Fascist scandalmongers say. The government has its hand on the pulse of the nation and hears distress signals from whatever source they come. But not all can be saved and some indeed deserve to go to the bottom. The majority of the latter belong to the category-enormously increased during and after the War-of business improvisers, men more reckless than enterprising, acrobats of industry and finance, men supremely encyclopedic in their initiatives...
...days not so very long ago the whole educational system from bottom to top was based on the assumption of individual similarity. . . The assumption was that the classical languages, mathematics, and a few other studies varying more or less from college to college would tune up the mind, so to speak, to concert pitch...
...Moscow itself Soviet statesmen, cheered by returns showing that Russia's present "bumper crop" is 10% to 12% greater than last year, spoke of a possible export surplus of 90,000,000 bushels, one-fourth of the 1913 figure. If this actually "small" Russian export can break the bottom out of wheat prices, the underlying cause must be some concealed "big" factor. It is this...
...young Milwaukeean, just graduated from Yale this year, has gone to work for a local public utility. Like all good Horatio Alger heroes, he was ready to start at the bottom and work up. So his employer sent him out on the read to learn some of the fundamentals of the business...