Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...succed politically is to start at the bottom, in your own Congressional district, and work up, he concluded. "Above all, don't start at the top and work down!" was Big Jim's parting shot...
...Johannes Hancock, Thesaurius" is scrawled at the bottom in the inimitable and well-known signature of the "Constitutional Father". The "Socii" of that time who also signed were Nathaniel Appleton 1749, John Winthrop 1732, Andrew Eliot 1737, Samuel Cooper 1748, and Andrew Eliot...
...German offers: 1) to make several kinds of peace pacts with virtually all European States, including an air pact in which England might join; 2) to establish with France and Belgium wholly new demilitarized zones; 3) even to lead Germany back into the League of Nations. At the bottom of this cookie jar was a conditional jagged stone in the shape of intimations that the Great Powers would now be willing to take up the question of restoring to Germany her lost colonies, but the Great Orator's speech subsided with such soft organ notes as these...
...swathed in cheesecloth, standing about a wheatfield (TIME, April 2, 1934). Its painter was Gilbert White, a long-haired U. S. expatriate. Young New Dealers did not like that picture. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace tried hard to have it removed, found that he could not, finally attached to the bottom a small plate: "Approved in 1932 by Andrew W. Mellon and Arthur Hyde." Very few ladies in cheesecloth have found their way into Federal buildings since...
...back yard, trying dozens of solvents in vain. His crucibles were shaky, his batteries uncertain. Finally he found that electrically melted cryolite, a mineral from Greenland, would dissolve the ore. Then he tried to electrolyze it. In clay crucibles it was no go. He substituted carbon crucibles. In the bottom he found a handful of gleaming aluminum pebbles. That was on Feb. 23, 1886. Charles...