Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...extracted from the kelp after drying, pulverizing and alkali treatment. The kelp itself is harvested by giant scissors which cut the growth within three feet of the surface, do not seriously injure the magnificent treelike growth that extends hundreds of feet down to a holdfast attached to the sea bottom...
Agar-agar is a gelatinous protein, essential in hospital laboratories for the culture and identification of bacteria and the testing of serums and antitoxins. Hitherto imported from Japan, it is now produced from another seaweed, only twelve inches high, which grows on the rocky sea bottom along the coast of Southern California...
Edwards, scoreless until the bottom of the sixth, came up strong for their last Jicks. The first batter reached first on Bart Harvey's error, the next singled and both advanced on a passed ball. Fourth man up popped to Gallagher, but the next walked, filling the bases...
...present crisis in world affairs is also a crisis in journalism. Fundamentally and at bottom the reason why the modern dictatorships are unspeakable is not merely because of their murders and their concentration camps. Men can fight that kind of tyranny. The bigger reason why the modern dictatorships are unspeakable is that they corrupt the mind from within. They suppress the truth. They lead men by lies and fraud to desire and acquiesce in their own enslavement. And how is this corruption brought about? By the destruction of journalism...
...blinding snowstorm on the evening of March 31, the ships slipped out of harbor to a rendezvous with British destroyers. Waiting for them, plainly tipped off by Göteborg spies, were German warships and swarms of Heinkel bombers. More than half the convoy was sent to the bottom; a few ships crawled back to Göteborg; only one or two got through to the North...