Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...both the RCA-Victor and Farnsworth television systems, unquestioned leaders in this science which shows no serious signs yet of becoming an industry, the pictures are electronically scanned from top to bottom in a series of close-packed horizontal lines. The greater the number of lines, the clearer the picture. Last week RCA-Victor announced it was upping its "definition" from 343 lines to 441. This means that 30% clearer images can be had on a screen the same size as before, or that pictures of the same clarity as before can be had on a screen 30% larger...
...Wembley Club. Smallest recognized class in prize fighting, established in 1910, flyweights have had only one other recognized world champion, Pancho Villa, who died in 1925. ¶ The Yale swimming team, coached by Bob Kiphuth, who last winter started the practice of observing his squad from the bottom of the pool (TIME, Jan. 20, 1936 ): its 154th consecutive intercollegiate dual meet; 60-to-15 against Pennsylvania, in its debut in the new Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League; at New Haven...
...door had a Yale lock and letters went into a row of little boxes at the bottom of each staircase each with its own combination lock. My combination I never knew, which didn't matter as I had no letters; but I had great fun "listening for the tumblers" as in the detective stories, though without success. Maybe the whole thing is provided as an intellectual exercise for the undergraduates who have to discover the combination before they can get their letters. Anyway it must be much more fun for all than mere letter boxes, though not noticeably more efficient...
...agree that the Tsarist history books are wrong, cannot agree that any history of Russia written since the Revolution is even approximately right, and cannot find an eminent Soviet historian ready to risk his neck by writing a history which the Dictator might decide was wrong. At the bottom of this dilemma is Trotsky...
...filling the tire with water from an ordinary garden hose. Water under normal faucet pressure suffices, is pumped in until the level reaches the valve. Then air inflation is added as usual. In winter, a calcium chloride solution prevents freezing. During operation over bumps, the water remains at the bottom of the tire, provides normal cushioning without bouncing...