Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...struck us amidships. Men in the engine room and on various damage control stations and in magazines and ammunition handling rooms under dogged-down hatches, heard it hit and thought their time was up. But it never exploded. It only dented our bottom...
...From the Bottom...
Cause without Cure. At the bottom of this bitter dogfight were three basic factors: 1) Jesse Jones's great urge to hold on to his vast powers, 2) the never-settled, equivocal division of authority between Jones and Wallace, 3) the inevitable conflict over business method between banker-minded Jesse Jones and war-worried Henry Wallace...
...audience of 4,000 a night. If the box office held good, Loubat hoped to net $25,000, sufficient for a down payment on the old opera-house plot. Loubat also hoped to follow his outdoor opera with a winter season in New Orleans' Municipal Auditorium. Rock-bottom estimates on his rebuilding plan run to about $285,000. He thought he might be able to rebuild...
...Phillies are a solid first-division threat. After last Sunday's doubleheader, they were in fifth place in the National League standings, but only eight games behind the world champion Cardinals, two behind the third-place Pirates. They may still slide ignominiously back into Philly corner, at the bottom of the league. But Philadelphians are making the most of today. Some fans have already sent in their checks for World Series tickets...