Search Details

Word: bottomly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Streamliner. An ex-Governor and ex-Senator from Iowa, Clyde LaVerne Herring, will prune deadwood from OPA. Clyde Herring's first chore will be a top-to-bottom survey of OPA. Separate price, rent and rationing control offices may be combined, the eight regional offices may be erased. Clyde Herring will look for ways to consolidate service, eliminate waste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New OPA | 3/22/1943 | See Source »

...general excitement one stalwart oarsman forget himself and put a large and capable foot through the paper-thin bottom of the shell. Everyone was disturbed, but there were lots of other shells. So they got in another and rowed off. Coming upstream, the little cox didn't see a cake of ice, and suddenly the boat was split from bow to stern, and sank unceremoniously...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Aw, Who Cares? Shells Only Cost $1000 Apiece, Anyway | 3/16/1943 | See Source »

Next morning little remained afloat except flotsam, human wreckage and oil splattering 20 square miles of Huon Gulf. On that day, two crippled destroyers were blasted to the bottom. They were the last of the convoy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Dividends | 3/15/1943 | See Source »

With 30 regular students and 47 special students in 1908, the 30 faculty members held classes for the most part in basements of buildings around the Yard. One of the favorite subterranean locations was in the bottom of Lawrence Hall, which was made accessible by the installation of a modification of an old immense heating plant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cunningham Tells Busy School History To Joint Faculty-Student Audience | 3/1/1943 | See Source »

...heartsick today to hear that my beautiful English woollens went to the bottom of the Atlantic. Shall have to choose other beauties from those that have safely arrived and remember how small my loss is compared to other people's. The same thing happened to my sweaters six months ago. Glad I was not planning on making any sweaters this season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Dressmaker's Diary | 3/1/1943 | See Source »

Previous | 113 | 114 | 115 | 116 | 117 | 118 | 119 | 120 | 121 | 122 | 123 | 124 | 125 | 126 | 127 | 128 | 129 | 130 | 131 | 132 | 133 | Next