Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent months was the crack-up of No. 1 Mexican Airman Francisco ("Pancho") Sarabia in Washington last June. One moment his stubby Gee Bee Special, the Q.E.D. was winging smoothly above the Potomac River; the next, downfluttering like a stricken hawk, it rammed its nose fast in the river bottom. By the time rescuers reached him, Sarabia was drowned. Shaken by the loss of their idol, Mexican mobs growled darkly of sabotage...
While descriptions of battles, complex campaigns, intrigues, finances are all top-drawer Pratt, clear and simple as the maps that dot the book, readers are apt later on to find such Prattlings as these tucked away in their mental bottom drawers...
...evolved a plan of attack which was moderately successful. We would row out into the ocean about 300 yards, then bore a hole six inches in diameter in the bottom of the boat, preferably near the bow. We would then rub around the edge of the hole a mixture of phosphorus and cheese (any sharp cheese would suffice). The light from the phosphorus and the tantalizing odor accompanying it would invariably attract any whifflepoofs lingering beneath us. We hovered over the hole, with rubber bands stretched out in our fingers. As soon as a whifflepoof would thrust his inquiring snout...
...weighs 1,700 pounds (less than the flywheel of the early Harvester tractors); its four-cylinder engine will pull a 16-inch plow bottom or a one-row middle buster (for furrowing cotton and cornfields...
...have no doubt that there is oil in Antarctica. . . . Who knows but what our future reservoirs of oil and coal . . . lie waiting for us at the bottom of the world...