Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exposition along with the airport, on the ground that each would help build the other. Three years more and a fleet of dredges appeared off the wooded hump of Yerba Buena Island between San Francisco and Oakland and began pumping black sand from the Bay bottom, slopping it over Yerba Buena shoals. With the help of Army engineers, WPA labor and a grant of $6,250,000 from the Federal Government, a mile-long island was sucked from the Bay to serve as San Francisco's fairground in 1939 and its airport forever after...
...fourth as much for each Negro child's education as for each white child's, and in Walter White's view the court's ruling that Negroes must have equal educational opportunities means that the South must establish parity in expenditures from top to bottom of its school system. Realist White observed: "We still have a struggle ahead to get the States to obey the court's mandate...
...lowly, cross-eyed little flatworms called planarias are highly regarded by zoologists, for they are the "lowest" animals in evolutionary rank which possess a definite head, right and left side, top and bottom, front and rear. Though it has no backbone, the flatworm is tenacious of life. If it is decapitated, the head will grow a new body, the body a new head. If the head is divided by a longitudinal cut toward the tail, each part will become a complete new head, making a two-headed monster. If part of a flatworm's head is removed and grafted...
...pushing their fleshy protuberance or "foot" into the sand, swelling out the tip so that it acts as an anchor, pulling itself after, repeating the process. Fresh-water hydras (primitive digesting stalks with predatory tentacles at the top) sometimes move by "somersaulting"-bending over, attaching their tentacles to the bottom, flipping over...
Cassandra was always right, but nobody believed her. A great many people, however, believe Colonel Leonard P. Ayres, vice president of the Cleveland Trust Co., who last year predicted that the bottom of Depression II would come in the first half of 1938. Last week tycoonry's favorite seer gave his followers a lavish exhibition of his powers by predicting practically everything for the coming year except the dew point in Wall Street at midnight on Friday, June 23. Excerpts...