Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doctor shortage was reviewed by the War Manpower Commission last week. Rock-bottom figure for effective U.S. physicians is 120,000 (after deducting retired doctors, those with full-time business or teaching jobs, and one-third of the physicians over 65). About 42,000 doctors, mostly men under 45, are now in uniform. This leaves some 80,000 at home. This year 11,455 more will go into service, leaving fewer than 70,000 for the 120,000,000 stay-at-homes (actually a few more, counting men coming out of retirement and those able to practice part-time...
...over the plant. But the pivotal symbol of the book is Pressure Stillman Gus Hammer, in whom, as his stills and his lifetime's skill become hopelessly outmoded, courage and dependability gradually degrade into sad, senile little tricks of sabotage, dangerously overambitious misjudgments of what a still bottom will bear. They have to pension Gus off two years before his time, and all he is good for is sitting down by the lake...
...other two contestants, Kirkland and Eliot are bottom names on the standing list, and will battle to keep from being put down on the record as lowest team in the House league. They face off at 10:00 o'clock...
...October off Guadalcanal. The Jap cruiser wheeled and turned like a crazed whale. On the pursuing U.S. destroyer Duncan nimble fingers adjusted a torpedo director, sent a tin fish on its way. Smoke and water geysered up. The Jap shuddered, rotted over, started towards the bottom...
...prevent the disabling "blackout" of a dive-bomber pilot at the moment he pulls out of a dive, Frederick P. Dillon of Los Angeles has invented a pilot's seat which automatically stretches the pilot out supine at the bottom of his dive. This posture change keeps the pilot's blood supply from being pulled away from his brain at dive's end. At the same time the mechanism relieves the pilot of control, turning the plane over to an automatic gyroscopic instrument. When the plane has leveled off, the pilot is returned to a sitting position...