Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dealt with the small-town doings of his home in Ontario. His yarn of the sinking of the Mariposa Belle with a picnic crowd aboard has the same essence of humour as the real affair did last week. The Mariposa Belle starts to sink and finally rests on the bottom of the lake, with the gunwales still above water and all passengers high and dry. The lifeboat, however, which has come out to rescue them is having a hard time with leaks and goes under just as it reaches the side of the steamer. The passengers shout and cheer...
...member of William Woodward's family shares his fetish for horses. They are always on deck for the big races (Mr. Woodward sometimes regrets that his box is not big enough to hold them all), but when it comes to rock-bottom horse talk, William Woodward's best crony is the man who has trained his horses for 16 years, big, moonfaced, 65-year-old James Edward Fitzsimmons...
...Scarff's ventriculoscope is a metal tube three-eighths of an inch in diameter, ten inches long. At the bottom is a lens, two tiny electric lights, two threadlike rubber hoses, for maintaining adequate fluid pressure in the brain, and an electric wire for cauterizing. At the top of the instrument is an eye piece and an electric connection. Gently working the ventriculoscope through Alice's grey matter down to one of her ventricles, Dr. Scarff was able to see about two inches of choroid plexus. Turning on the electricity, he seared off all the feathery tissue...
Commodities. The Bureau of Labor's wholesale price index hit a new 1939 low-75.2, its bottom since...
...three years ago in Pomona, Calif., a Czecho-Slovak butcher named William Dubil lugged a bottom round of beef from his refrigerator, found that someone had stored it too near the freezing coils. It was granite-hard. Sure that the piece was spoiled, would blacken as it thawed, rueful Dubil put it on a slicing machine, turned out a stack of paper-thin slices. He put them in the display refrigerator just to see what would happen...