Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about the submerged land off the Atlantic Coast - harvest of an idea that the chunky, 50-year-old geology professor at Princeton University and his associates had been working on for three years. Dr. Field had no thought of learning anything new about the surface topography of the sea bottom. A great number of soundings with the old-fashioned line & sinker, more recently with the echo sounder, have disclosed that contour to oceanographers. Dr. Field wanted to know what lay beneath that bottom. I occurred to him to use the "artificial" earthquake method by which oil prospectors map subterranean rock...
...Stern-Hearst feud developed several months ago when Publisher Hearst tried to woo away some of Stern's best men. Politics rather than personalities were at the bottom of their grudge fight. Out in the open last week it took on new proportions. Besides reprinting the Hearst attack on the New Deal, New Dealer Stern editorially challenged the master of San Simeon thus on the Record's front page: "Let Hearst, arch reactionary, battle the liberal Record at close range, and let Philadelphia citizens be the jury. . . . Philadelphia is one of the few cities in the country where...
...conference rather than the revolver as an instrument of settling jurisdictional disputes. From his Newark hideout he had sent an emissary to Manhattan several weeks ago.This emissary had never returned, and word had gone round that he was to be found in a barrel of cement on the bottom of the Hudson River. Krompier was supposed to have been on a second goodwill mission when he was shot in the Times Square barbershop...
...British general election it is the cherished privilege of His Majesty's Government and the members of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition to rave like opposing lawyers who afterward resume their friendship outside the courtroom. The secret of British enmity is that at bottom it is nearly always friendly. No member of the Nazi Cabinet at Berlin need have taken serious offense last week merely because in the House of Commons the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill peered over his spectacles and said several startling things which happened to be true...
Imperialism is the eternal and immutable law of life. It is, at bottom, nothing other than the need, the desire and the will to expansion which every individual, and every live and vital people, possesses...