Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...behold! once alighted he will discover that University Hall urges the mature student, through the general exam and tutorial systems, to see college as another series of jumps, climaxing in one big water hazard at the end. This conception of hurdles, series, and incessant academic strife seems at bottom false, an example of the commercialization of learning, and contrary to the most rational tents of teaching. The student becomes a mere animal running a steeplechase, with the dean's office as jockey; the ideal of individual instruction is submerged beneath a mass of competitive symbols and scholastic rigmarole...
...head of New Zealand's Government when the world depression hit bottom in 1931 was Prime Minister George William Forbes, whose favorite cry was "Stabilize the Budget." He helped to stifle the 1932 Auckland riot with British bluejackets from H. M. S. Philomel and with 1,200 special constables swinging brand-new truncheons. His helplessness in the face of continued depression made him unpopular, and in 1935 the Laborites got a majority and a Prime Minister-a stocky, alert, pudgy-faced farmer's son named Michael Joseph Savage. Before becoming Prime Minister he had been a messenger...
...Charles Edwin Mitchell, onetime chairman of the National City Bank, who four years ago started over again at the bottom and is now chairman of Blyth & Co., last week settled (for an unrevealed sum) the Government's tax claim of $1,384,222 against...
...Sherburno Trail at Pinkham Notch, It is sanctioned by the United States Eastern Amateur Ski Association, but there will be no class distinctions. The Sherburne, trail is wide and looks fairly easy, nonetheless frequent bottle-necks and a rutty surface make it a test of Intermediate ability. Only the bottom mile and a half will be raced...
...entries should be made at Leavitt and Pierce not later than 12 o'clock noon today on the blanks which are available. Contestants will meet at the bottom of the trail at 10 o'clock Sunday morning for numerals...