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Word: bottomly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disposal, Thunder Afloat is an able and reasonably authentic document. As entertainment it stands out from the ruck of service pictures by virtue of its material: as exciting as a periscope rising off starboard, as dramatic as the prayerful waiting of men trapped in a delicate mechanism at the bottom of a turbulent, exploding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 25, 1939 | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...ships like protection. >First prize of the British naval forces was the German freighter Olinda, bound for Hamburg with $700,000 worth of Argentine wheat and meat. The cruiser Ajax overhauled her 50 miles north of Montevideo, put her crew on a passing tanker, sent her to the bottom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Atrocity No. I | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...energetically shouted by 52nd Street's Scotcha Ella Logan; one big, loud ensemble, hymning Tin Pan Alley; Tapper Ann Miller, who has some things Tapper Eleanor Powell has not; and a shimmy-shake called the Mexiconga, which will not be a successor to Producer White's Black Bottom. Sorriest Scandal: John L. Lewis picketing a bedded couple who refuse to join a union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Musical in Manhattan: Sep. 11, 1939 | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...Bemelmans tales will bear reading to little tots. One such is the story of Putzi, a premature baby who lived in a jar of alcohol on its parents' mantelpiece, became a hero when his father discovered he was a perfect barometer, sinking to the bottom on approach of bad weather, bobbing to the top, with "a Lilliputian smile and rosy cheeks," at the approach of fair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Home-brew | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...steep and slippery grade ahead. With all four wheels locked, the industry slithered down from a top weekly production of 90,280 (at the end of March) and skidded to a dismal pace of 32,445 (during the first week in May). Instead of crashing at the bottom, the motor industry stepped on the throttle, succeeded in topping an unexpected rise to 81,070 a week by the end of June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: 1940 Models | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

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