Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...experts in. When the children were finally shunted to one side, the crowning absurdity was revealed. The pool was only three-feet deep instead of the Olympic standard of five. Long-armed swimmers, usually the ablest, who tried to do the crawl scraped their fingernails on the bottom. Said Olympic Coach Ray Daughters: "Mark my words . . . the tryouts are going to be miserable...
Weight of this evidence that higher margins reduced trading was weakened somewhat by the fact that one of the three sample days was April 30, when stock prices were close to their spring bottom. Fact remained, however, that the volume of trading dropped enormously after 55% margins went into effect. After a turnover of 51,000,000 shares for March, Stock Exchange sales dropped off to 39,600.000 in April, 20,600,000 in May, and recovered hardly at all in June (21,400,000). It seemed unlikely that full blame for the slump could be laid on outside market...
...Arab social hierarchy in Palestine. Jewish development of Palestine has weakened the downtrodden Arab farm workers to the feudal tyranny of their Arab masters, has raised wage and living standards in Palestine, introduced the eight-hour day, encouraged Arab trade-unions. Result: economic liberation of Arab farmers. At bottom the anti-Jewish rage of the Arab landowners, backed by their Bedouin cavalry hordes, was caused by this unexpected social upheaval. But the leaders are willing to compromise. Not so the sincere fanatic desert Arabs who follow them and are always ready for a new holy...
...commander of the American Legion and a Democrat. The firm of Hamilton & O'Neil, with feet in both political camps, did well. In 1934 Partner O'Neil got involved in the War Department supply scandals but Partner Hamilton was not entangled. In politics Hamilton started at the bottom as a precinct captain, for two reasons worked up rapidly: 1) An urge to get on top of the heap, which drives him to work incessantly-he made a house-to-house canvass on foot to win his first election as probate judge in 1920. 2) Adoption by a potent...
...women stepped out of a night school, started down in an elevator. As the car passed the twelfth floor, it picked up abnormal speed. The operator tried to check it with the control lever, failed. Instants later the car smashed into the spring buffers at the bottom of the pit, bounced up again, settled for good with its floor split, its walls and mechanism utterly demolished. Jounced into a screaming jumble on the floor were the passengers, all alive, but two with broken legs, others with sprained ankles, bruises. These injuries, which in train, ship, automobile or airplane wrecks would...