Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...March 17, when the national lottery is held in Washington, they can get an approximate idea of the order in which they will be called. Under present regulation, the new order numbers obtained as a result of the lottery will be placed at the bottom of the list or previous registrants. The local draft boards have not as yet received instructions as to how to call the new registrants for possible military service...
...good grades, but he never won prizes. He sailed small boats, but never won races. The other cadets seldom saw him lounging about the streets, loafing amid the yellow buildings at Den Helder. He was a solid character, even to look at from behind, with his broad Dutch bottom, below the high, blue, single-breasted jackets the cadets wore. They and their instructors considered Conrad Helfrich a sound man; they felt in him a force that marked him for something more than a naval drudge...
...Department revealed that "thousands of enemy soldiers" were believed drowned or killed in yesterday's surprise raid in Subic Bay in the Philippines when five Jap ships aggregating 30,200 tons were sent to the bottom...
...building, having a capacity of more than 1,000,000 books. The present collection about half fills them, and about a tenth of these are on exhibition. Unlike the dingy labyrinths of Houghton's senior partner, the stacks are bright with fluorescent lighting that penetrates even to the bottom shelf, but only members of the staff will be allowed to appreciate them. The light and humidity of the entire building are so regulated as to prolong the life of the manuscripts...
Aboard the liner President Coolidge Luther Ch'en was astounded to hear over the radio that the same liner had been sent to the bottom in mid-Pacific. The time was last December 7, the place was somewhere near Samoa, land the least concerned were the five-hundred passengers who were anxious to disprove the first of the false Japanese naval claims, Ch'en stated yesterday...