Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long ago learned to lay great lengths of pipe overland to transport water, petroleum, natural gas, sewage. Georges Claude of France is the prophet and pioneer of laying great lengths of pipe on an ocean floor, to conduct seawater from the cold bottom to a shore station. Professor Claude believes that power can be generated at unheard-of cheapness by utilizing the temperature differential between the cold bottom-water and water from the ocean's surface warmed by a tropic sun. Twice he has tried and failed at Matanzas Bay, Cuba, to lower a mile-long pipe six feet...
...gathered momentum, sent the price crashing to a low of 8¢ per pound. Reason: The Dutch East Indies refused to impose restrictions on output, bringing an end to the latest of many attempts to curb production. Disheartened, producers compared the present low to the 14.2¢ which was the bottom in the depression of 1922, and the 17.85¢ low six years later when the Stevenson Act was removed. And longingly was 1910's fabulous high of 310.18¢ recalled...
...Boats. Critics who say Shamrock V has no chance think so because: 1) Under the rules of the America's Cup races she crossed the ocean on her own bottom and had to be rerigged when she got here, while the Enterprise has been tuning up all summer. 2) She is sailed by an Englishman unfamiliar with the ocean at Newport, while Skipper Vanderbilt has sailed at Newport since boyhood. 3) She is sailed by a professional, and professionals as a class are rarely as resourceful as amateurs...
Diver Alberto: "Stop! I'm on the bottom. ... I can make out something vast. . . . It's the end of a ship's hull. ... I can see the taffrail...
...shall dance, but more and more they follow and do not lead. For the Dancing Masters well know now that it is not their fiat that calls the turn in U. S. dancesteps, but such creations as Gilda Gray's Shimmy, Bill Robinson's tapping, George White's Black Bottom, Schwab & Mandel's Varsity Drag, such agencies as Tin-Pan Alley...