Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this appropriate place, making the major speech of his tour, the President declared that Federal projects like Bonneville make for decentralization of government, enlarged on the merits of "planning from the bottom up." Said he: "Under our laws the President submits to the Congress an annual budget-a budget which, by the way, we expect to have definitely balanced by the next fiscal year. . . . Instead of spending, as some nations do, half their national income in piling up armaments ... we in America are wiser in using our wealth on projects like this which will give us more wealth, better living...
...replace the others, which are plain. When the contractors, subcontractors and workmen heard that Henry Willet was designing a "Workmen's Window" to represent the various trades engaged in building the church, they clubbed together to pay for it. Designer Willet happily put Architect Carroll at the bottom of the window, looking pale, and the stained-glass craftsman at the top, under a benevolent angel. A vine etched in gold joins the 14 figures in between-iron worker, excavator, stone mason, carpenter, woodcarver, electrician, roofer, plumber, plasterer, painter-and lettering sets forth: "We Are Laborers Together; Let Every...
Fullback weakness puts Jack Carr's Varsity booters on the bottom of the pregame doping for this afternoon's soccer opener with Brown here...
Unlike the History plan there will be a small group at the bottom of the Economics list who will receive no tutorial at all, with at the most a few words of advice. This is an excellent change, for it serves the purpose of freeing the tutor from having to spend a great deal of time over men who cannot or will not take advantage of the system. This in turn gives the University a substantial financial saving, and allows the tutor to spend more time profitably on students really interested in the field...
...Dublin, the young lover sings the praises of his "dove," his "beautiful one"-half angel, half virgin; he finally persuades her to undo the snood ''that is the sign of maidenhood"; and ends up in the classic predicament of all lyric lovers: starkly sitting on his bottom, all alone. A genius at mimicry. Joyce succeeds in imparting a flavor of old-fashioned purity to his verses; but behind this not entirely insincere façade the reader can sense, and sometimes see, his peculiarly Irish irreverence...