Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...needed reforming when he found that high-school typists often misspelled easy words (such as "on," "which") because they had to make awkward reaches and hurdles with their fingers to type them. He also found that in normal writing typists struck keys in the home row (second from the bottom, where the fingers naturally rest) only 32% of the time, that the left hand did 47% more work than the right. Sample one-hand word: greatest...
...Famous for his hatred of varnish, Directo van Puyvelde has cleaned up many a Flemish masterpiece, disclosed last Christmas on nymph's leg and one baby's bottom in picture by Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678) which had been painted over in prudish generations. "Patina," he snorted, "used to be bought by the Belgian State for 100 francs a bottle. . . . It's called that 'Old Gold' tone. Pfui...
...many cases of venereal diseases at Harvard," Ernest Sachs '38 IM, spokesman for the health drive said last night that pressure will be brought to bear on students as well as University officers to stamp out the menace. "We're going to work from the top down and the bottom...
...right down to the job it had to do. After planting himself firmly in Iowa ("I was born and raised here. My father and mother spent their lives here"), Harry Hopkins gave his own picture of his new job. Running WPA he had served the nation's bottom third. Now he served "the two-thirds of the population earning their living by what we consider to be the normal process of our economic system." To bring his former clients up to par with his new ones, "if new jobs are to be provided, the national income must be increased...
...muralist, brother of Novelist Stewart Edward White and Violinist Roderick White; after an intestinal operation; in Paris. Four years ago Henry Wallace tried to have one of Painter White's murals (once called "Ladies in Cheesecloth") removed from the Department of Agriculture Building, failed, thereupon attached to the bottom a small plate: "Approved in 1932 by Andrew W. Mellon and Arthur Hyde...