Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week James's youngest brother, John Roosevelt, home from honeymooning in Bermuda, was promised a job "at the bottom" ($18 per week) in Wm. Filene's Sons department store in Boston...
...shell and pulls. The oyster resists, but its shell-closing muscle eventually tires and its shell gapes. The starfish then intrudes its stomach into the opening, absorbs the oyster. To reduce the numbers of starfish preying on their beds, oystermen frequently drag frayed ropes over the sea bottom. The spiny skins of the starfish become entangled in the ropes and they are hauled to the surface and destroyed...
...Hague to have another try. Billiton set up headquarters on Terschelling, hired 50 wooden-shod dredgermen from the village of Sliedrecht, sent out the Karimata, world's largest dredger, to claw a trench on the bottom...
Last winter a free-lance deep-sea diver and experimenter named Max Nohl had himself lowered 420 ft. to the bottom of Lake Michigan, thus making the world's deepest dive to date in a diving suit (TIME, Dec. 13).* In so doing, Max Nohl conclusively showed the value of a helium-oxygen mixture for deep diving. Helium is a light gas, requires little effort to inhale. It also seems to forestall that bugbear of divers, "the bends" (gas bubbles in the blood...
Ticking off the Exchange as a private club, Douglas demanded reorganization from top to bottom, with such reforms as a hired president and democratic control...