Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...practical are the clothes shown by Paris conservatives such as Alix, Worth and Lelong. Scorning plaster women, Lanvin has draped two gowns of medieval inspiration and some handsome furs on a gigantic horse and an heraldic lion. Rebel Schiaparelli, outdoing even this, has flung a plaster female stark naked.* bottom down on a beach rug of artificial flowers, tossed the costume on a beach chair. Since such capers by the aristocrats of haute couture are not intended to please everyone, Paris' great department store Le Louvre is handy at the Exposition, selling French dresses of good ready-to-wear...
...instruments in the last twelvemonth. But pianomen, reporting that the sales of 49,595 pianos through June were 33% higher than for the corresponding period last year, were most optimistic. They expected to sell 80,000 more by the end of the year, a gain of 500% over rock bottom 1932. Some pianomen thought this increase was traceable to more attractive "streamlined" cabinets, others to the general revival of installment selling. But all were sure that they would run out of materials before the year is up if the present buying wave continues...
...sometimes, to be 20 ft. long. Other guesses: water-logged tree trunk, sunken barge, eruption of subterranean gases throwing up leaf accumulation, devil fish, sturgeon, or Old Blue, the legendary giant catfish of the Mississippi who every so often gets stuck in a canal lock or nudges in the bottom of a barge. As Diver Brown prepared for his first descent, Newport called an unofficial holiday. Lining the shore were hundreds of out-of-towners munching Farmer Bateman's barbecued goat sandwiches and sipping his cold drinks. A loudspeaker was erected and after much ado on the great morning...
...expansion and cooling of the air as it rises condenses atmospheric moisture, forms the cloud. The air in and around thunderheads is often gusty enough to toss a glider around like a canoe in heavy surf. The top of the cloud is charged with negative electricity, the bottom with positive. When this difference of potential becomes high enough a stroke of lightning cancels it. A direct hit by lightning has never been definitely shown to be the cause of an airplane wreck, but there is little doubt that the concussion of a nearby lightning stroke might suffice to send...
...pumping in acid is to eat out new channels in the limestone. Hydrochloric acid is used, chemically inhibited so that it will not attack steel casing or tubing. The acid doctor pulls out the tubing and pumping equipment, runs the tubing back with a packer 15 ft. above the bottom so acid will not run up the hole, squirts in 1,400 to 3,000 gal. of HCl. Rushing through a two-inch tubing, the acid eats into the | limestone so fast that it creates a partial vacuum at the top of the line...