Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dutch and English who settled the bottom tip of Manhattan Island were in no hurry. Their tiny lanes rambled and twisted between their farms and homes. In 1807 New York City planners laid out a grid of narrow crosstown and wider up & downtown streets from 14th to 155th. The crosstown streets were placed at close intervals because it was thought that much of the town's up & downtown traffic would be borne by the Hudson River on the west, the East River on the east. The grid street plan worked very well for a century. Old photographs of Manhattan...
...reels, showing Peter as an anti-religious reformer, a groundbreaker for Stalin. The picture places boisterous emphasis on Peter's essential democracy, particularly his wiving of the Lithuanian commoner who later became Catherine I. Colossal capstone: Peter, toasting Russia's bright future, publicly bussing the bare bottom of Catherine's first-born child...
...took place just four days after the grimy little gunboat Panay settled in the mud of the Yangtze River bottom and its greatest ornaments were naturally Ambassadors Saito of Japan and Chengting T. Wang of China. Mr. Saito and his wife arrived first, narrowly missing an embarrassing meeting with Dr. Wang who with his pretty daughters Yoeh. An-fu. and An-hsiu, followed him up the White House steps. In the receiving line as Secretary of State Hull successively faced those dignitaries, he had the opportunity of seeing the fleshly embodiment of one of the strangest diplomatic situations that ever...
...seems probable that the bottom of the present slump in industrial production will be reached in the first half of next year, for operations have been curtailed so rapidly that in many lines we are already producing less than we are consuming. The recovery from that low point is bound to be much slower than the descent to it has been...
...successor is a trim, close-mouthed diplomat whose career has been as single-tracked as Joe Kennedy's has been heterogeneous. After a misguided effort to oblige his parents by going into business when he left Yale in 1906, Hugh Wilson married and started in at the bottom of the foreign service ladder as private secretary to the U. S. Minister to Portugal in 1911. Rungs thereafter included service in legations or embassies at Guatemala, Buenos Aires, Berlin, Vienna, Tokyo and Berne. In 1927 he got his first top-flight appointment as Minister to Switzerland, since then has maintained...