Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minister to China, met the suave and elegant young Phillips in London, took him to Peking as second secretary at the U. S. legation. Because China was so far away, Billy Phillips resigned that job, gave up his seniority, returned to Washington, started over again at the bottom with an office boy's salary as an assistant to the Third Assistant Secretary of State. That was in 1907. Within two years he had won such esteem in the Department that he was sent to London as first Secretary of the Embassy, a doubly important post because Ambassador Whitelaw Reid...
...bottom of the whole difficulty is the hopelessly vague and loosely-drawn Neutrality Act, which shows the mental lassitude of our present Congress even more vividly than some of its more prominent but equally ineffective pieces of legislation. The gentlemen on Capitol Hill, as has been customary with them, showed an admirable good will, adopted a purpose with which most of the country could agree, and then sank under the dead weight of their own mediocrity. Instead of taking the bit between the teeth and actually determining just what implements of war, are, they acknowledged their own lack of initiative...
...circus might look like in a child's dream. Both the old and the new Hippodrome spectacles were pervaded with the smell of elephants, were filled to the brim with good clean entertainment, were calculated to appeal to the rich & poor with a $3 top and a 40? bottom, were bound to please both young...
Such an attitude is typical of the man who as President, while our foreign trade came crashing down to rock bottom, said that tariff walls cannot be made too high. It is also typical of the American superstition that a high standard of living depends upon a favorable balance of trade. Although it is almost a truism that American prosperity depends upon Europe's having enough gold stocks to keep her currencies somewhere near stability, the United States continues to believe in a mulish manner that this country must sell the world more and more and buy less and less...
...shoreline for 80 or more miles, ending in a cliff which drops sharply to the deeps. Next Dr. Ewing set about finding what the Shelf was made of. Every day, in good weather and bad, a small boat put off from the ketch, planted explosive containers on the bottom while the seismographs were dropped from the Atlantis. Dull booms rolled up from the abyss...