Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole case should lead the Army to reopen peace and eligibility negotiations with Annapolis which, if they do, should lead to the healing of a big breach. It will bring the two institutions together faster than government intervention for it gets at the bottom of the break and abolishes a false athletic principle...
...what the whistle meant, would rush to the top with gaping mouths whenever it was blown. Later he procured another whistle of lower tone. He would blow this, then spank the rising fish with a glass rod. Soon they learned the meaning of the new whistle, would cower at bottom when it was blown, but still come gaping to the surface when the food whistle blew...
...along no barograph to register in ink, on a clock-controlled drum, the fact that his craft was in flight for the time elapsed. Later, properly equipped with a barograph, Barstow took off again. After soaring eight hours, a gust of wind caught his sailplane, dashed it to the bottom of a canyon. His injuries will confine him to bed for two months...
...sseldorf airport last week cheered while Daredevil Willie Hundertmark stood up in his plane, seized and clung to a rope ladder suspended from a second plane flying above him. Intermittently, for a half-hour, they continued to cheer while, with Daredevil still dangling from the bottom rung, the plane swooped and circled low. Then with horror they saw that the acrobat was tangled in the ladder, was too exhausted to free himself. Rescuers tried to snatch the swinging body but it was tangled too badly. The plane had to land. Daredevil Willie Hundertmark was dragged to death...
There is such a thing as being pennywise and pound-foolish. In the long run the few dollars lost gained by keeping salaries at rock bottom will seem few indeed compared to the work that will be done in greener fields by men who might have remained here had genuine effort been made to retain them. That work though it will have its monetary value--will not and cannot be gauged in dollars and cents. It will be the life work of devoted scientists and professors and that type of work always and successfully resists arithmetical computation. --The Minnesota Daily...