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Word: bottomly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christ's road to Calvary), Omar's Mosque and Solomon's Temple, the Garden of Gethsemane, the Church of All Nations, the Dead Sea ("every one of the boys would take a swim although the water is so salty that you can hardly stand on the bottom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Chaplains' Tours | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

Hero. In Washington, a patent was awarded to the inventor of a handbag with a translucent bottom, which makes it possible for a woman to discover what is in the bag by holding it up to the light, instead of disemboweling it on a restaurant table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 6, 1943 | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

...more like a coalmine shaft. Someone threw a switch, setting off 12,000 Ib. of explosives deep underground. There was a rumble, a burst of steam and gas from the hole, and then an amazing flood of hundreds of gallons of oil and water from underground wells into the bottom of the shaft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Oil Miner | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

Horizontal Man. Ranney reasoned: Why not drill horizontally for oil, as miners dig coal? He designed a"Ranney-well" for oil mining - a vertical, concrete-lined shaft, sunk to the oil level, and a circular chamber at the bottom from which drillers might bore horizontally into the surrounding layer of oil sandstone. By drilling 24 holes, each radiating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Oil Miner | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

Recently the Army released a short showing Clark Gable, with his ears and wings, and the Air Forces O.C.S. down at Miami. Captain Gable gave a long spiel about the toughness of the course, stating that the bottom ten per cent fail, so the Air Forces officer has to be good. What he forgot to add was that the top ten come to Harvard to the A.A.E. Stat School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STATISTICIANS FOR AIR CORPS TRAINED AT BUSINESS SCHOOL | 12/3/1943 | See Source »

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