Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jack") Webb was the greatest teacher Dr. Rice ever met. Webb had a wisdom bump on his forehead the size of half a walnut, used to sit talking to himself and trimming his grey beard with pocket scissors. He taught Greek, English, history, math, everything -sitting in a split-bottom chair and gently posing riddles to his pupils. Says Dr. Rice: "More Rhodes Scholars came from Webb School than from any other in the world...
...cats and fine chicks, I want you to dig a mess of this jive. Because I want to hip you to my buddy-boy, Hollywood Al. He knows those fine hip styles you all like so much-that extra-wide knee 28, 29, 30 inches and that peg bottom way down to 14 inches-that are really a killer. . . . When you buy in Hollywood Al's Pants Shop you are buying from a hip cat who knows what it's all about because he's been around plenty...
...town meetings than classes, the men talk about soil, animals and crops, the women discuss better housekeeping. Children spend part of their day in school, part learning chores. As payment for instruction, house and land, each family returns part of its produce to the school-half the crop on bottom lands, a third on hillsides. In choosing his students, Dr. Andy has observed two strict rules: he admitted only families that 1) had many children, 2) agreed to move on after five years to apply their learning on farms of their...
...money will be used to blast new channels for the Seine River as a preliminary to draining Steep Rock Lake. Most of its 125 billion gallons of water will then be pumped out, its bottom stripped for open-pit mining. The Canadian Government has already appropriated some $5,000,000 for the erection of power lines and the financing of a railroad spur to lead from Steep Rock to Atikokan, which has rail connections with Lake Superior...
...everyone had expected (TIME, Oct. 5) the new "Controlled Materials Plan" was in essence a scheme for vertical allocations-in contrast to the horizontal every-producer-for-himself setup that finally strangled its predecessor, the unlamented Production Requirements Plan ("Purp") in its own red tape. From top to bottom, the Controlled Materials Plan provides...