Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passed their intelectual prime and are tottering in dotage seems to rest on "the observable tendency of the College to blight young thinking," this blight taking the form of professorial pressure on students to conform on the top of the academic heirarchy, and student pressure to conform on the bottom. Such a tendency may be "observable," but the challenge that it is all embracing or universal in scope must be taken...
...have found it of value in treating asthma, croup, laryngitis and diphtheria when a constriction of the windpipe makes breathing difficult. It is also of value to deep-sea divers, as a 27-year-old engineer named Max Nohl demonstrated last week when he descended 420 ft. to the bottom of Lake Michigan. This was the deepest dive ever made in a diving suit.* An unofficial record of 361 feet was established in 1916 in Michigan's Grand Traverse Bay. Previous official record was 306 ft., set in 1915 by Frank Crilley of the U. S. Navy who reached...
...hose, the diver carries tanks of oxygen and helium on his back, inside the suit, adjusts his own atmosphere. Thus there is no airline to foul or puncture, and the diver can even disconnect his hoist line for greater freedom, keeping track of a "distance line" on the bottom so that he can find his way back to the surface connecting lines. If he happens to lose it, he can, according to Diver Nohl, rise of his own accord by valving gas into the suit...
When he was derricked over the side of the Coast Guard cutter Antietam last week, his lines fouled at 200 ft. and he was brought back. Next time he got all the way down without difficulty. "Holy smoke," he yelled into his telephone, "I'm on the bottom." It was so dark that he could not see six inches. When he was hoisted back on board, the only thing that bothered him was cold feet...
...Captain could just make out "a rather blurred image of the nearby seascape." Biggest moments in the life of theLL-9 came when the Second, or chief executive, relayed the Captain's order to dive: "Take her down." When she headed for the bottom there was always a strong chance that she might not level off at the right depth, and "a submarine but momentarily out of control may sink in a few seconds to a depth where she crushes under the pressure...