Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Army today was surprised at his selection. But in April 1898, one would have got you a thousand that Malin (pronounced Maylin) Craig would never emerge at the Army's top. That was the month and year that Cadet Craig was graduated from the Military Academy at the bottom of his class. Chances are that he might not even have graduated from West Point had not the No. 1 man of his class admired the heady way he played football, offered to coach him through. Malin Craig's progress after he left the Academy should give hope...
...Because prolonged rains reduce the carnauba's need for hoarded moisture, the wax crop varies widely from year to year. This year the rains came early, stayed late. Result is a delayed crop, a rise in price per Ib.-now 38?, almost four times that of the 1932 bottom, but far short of an 80? peak price in 1918. Few U. S. waxmen agree with Johnson's President Johnson that there is a serious shortage...
...Massachusetts legislature can be made to realize, even in a slight degree, that there is a substantial number of citizens in the Commonwealth who do not see the face of Stalin at the bottom of their teacups and who see no necessity of mass-production in thinking, the opponents of the bill will have been successful. Once a virile course of action in favor of repeal has been taken there is hope that the legislators will consider the opposite side of the question. It is not too much to expect that in a country like this there are just...
...must be carried off with complete secrecy. Things go smoothly until a few days later when the radio becomes alive with reports of an infant-kidnapping. The mysterious coming and going of the doctor and nurse take on an added significance and Emily Madison determines to get at the bottom of the matter. Contact with the infant brings out her latent mother-urge and when the alleged mother breaks under the tension and runs off, Emily decides to keep the child...
That evening at 6 p.m. Secretary Hull had correspondents into his private office to announce that Standard Oil was, after all, at the bottom of the Ethiopian woodpile. Obviously indignant, Secretary Hull declared: "The granting of this concession has been the cause of great embarrassment, not only to this Government but to other governments who are making strenuous and sincere efforts for the preservation of peace. . . . It [is] highly desirable that the necessary steps should be taken at the earliest possible moment to terminate the concession...