Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Atwater Kent payrolls listed 12,000 workers when the bottom dropped out of the stockmarket as well as the radio market. Lately the number has been 800, mostly workers subject to call when jobs were available...
...taught a spell at Brown, briefly took over the sickly State University at Burlington. James Rowland Angell does not like to have it forgotten that he is descended from nine generations of Rhode Islanders and he en joys recalling that since the old Angell farm lies at the bottom of Providence's reservoir, the citizens to this day drink water filtered through his ancestors' bones. But the Harvard Alumni Review made no mistake in its simile. Like a breeze, Angell had in his 53 years moved freely far & wide. His horizon had always been broader than the campus...
Some force has but to apply, And summits shall be immersed, The bottom of seas raised 'dry- The slope of the earth reversed...
...started it. There he fell under the spell of blustering Frank Harris, worshipped him as a hero until he found he was a plagiarist. When he tried to salve his sore emotions by going on a bender, came back with a case of gonorrhea, Murry felt he had touched bottom...
Readers may find a clue to Murry in his own remarks on Rousseau's Confessions: "JeanJacques can hardly be called detestable, yet he is certainly not likeable. And it is hard to say why. . " . There is something in it which is at bottom revolting. He is totally without some hard aristocratic stuff which is necessary to the ideal composition...