Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This Saturday Cornell visits Soldiers Field for a doubleheader while the Tigers play host to Penn. Those four games, won by the "right" teams, could turn the tide of the 1942 campaign. Meanwhile, however, Princeton will take a swat at Columbia tomorrow. Although Cornell is on the bottom of the heap, she is 33 percentage points nearer the Crimson than Princeton is on the opposite...
From LIFE, April 13, page 33, bottom cut: A group of marines are shown standing in a barbed-wire enclosure. The caption reads "Marines on Bataan line up for orders before wading into the jungle to clean out some Jap outposts...
Biggest immediate problem was a diminishing supply of teachers. Private school teachers' pay normally averages $1,200 a year; some get as little as $400 and maintenance. To keep themselves staffed, some of the better schools offered as much as $3,000; even so they were scraping the bottom of the barrel. When they hired married men to replace unmarried draftees, they had a housing headache: married men and their families could not live in boys' dormitories...
...damn smart." She got the passport and a publicity job in Chungking. Jacoby went on his way to Chungking by Clipper, was hired by TIME. Once after a bad air raid he wrote to discourage her coming, saying Chungking was no place for a woman. At the bottom of the letter he penciled: "P.S. Hurry...
...more intimate and personal than a photograph of one's face. To send it to a friend or acquaintance, therefore, was not an insult, but a mark of affection and esteem. Furthermore, it was a token more permanent and honest than the conventional photograph, since one's bottom changes less rapidly and radically than one's face, the latter being exposed to wind and weather as well as the ravages of time." The human face, Monsieur de Malancourt remarked, is like that of a fish and has been immemoriably, much over-rated as an art-object...