Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Texas, gawky young lambs bounded stiff-legged up green hillsides; farmers put out their tomatoes; the first corn and cotton shoots pierced the fertile land of the Rio Grande Valley. In bottom pastures cows were bloated from eating too much fresh clover. Blue-bonnets carpeted the fields; red birds flashed in the forests; wasps began a lazy buzzing at barn rafters, building their nests. In San Antonio the first kites jerked high in the gusty winds; tennis courts were crowded; Mexican chicos waded in the shallows of San Antonio River...
...seventh day Aldrich slashed out with the pocketknife again, this time gilled a four-foot shark and yanked it aboard. It flopped down on Pastula in the bottom of the raft. He rolled over and pinned it like a wrestler. With their pliers the men ripped the shark open. Dixon remembered reading that sharks stored up vitamins in their liver. They joked about that. The liver was "very tasty," so were two sardines in the shark's stomach which the men said "must have been partly digested because they tasted as if they had been cooked...
...stock market, sagging since the first of the year, bumped to a seven-year bottom last week. The venerable Dow-Jones industrial stock average hit 98.3, 14% under 1942's best, lowest since...
After a month of practice, the Varsity lacrosse squad has begun to emerge from the "unknown quantity" stage and show indications of a better season than last year's bottom-heavy record would indicate as the usual lot of Crimson stickmen...
...monthly estimate of total retail sales. Dollar volume for January, announced last week, was $4,212,000,000, up 16% above January 1941, but physical volume was down 1%. The top of the red area on the graph traces dollar volume of retail sales since Jan. 1, 1941; the bottom shows physical volume; the widening band of red records the progress of inflation as the two lines spread. The much narrower black band below traces the same curves a year before, to show how physical volume dropped below 1940, beginning in October...