Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world without a doubt. They remember their own youth and are kind, tolerant and understanding, but firm in the dispensing of parental authority. However, when I'm really in the wrong and deserve to be punished, I get it: said "it" being 48 sound whacks across my bare bottom with Dad's hand...
From each of these isms, says Author Barzun, people learned that "the riddle of the Sphinx had been solved." The solution might be a little technical and complicated. "Yet at bottom lay a simple principle" - the survival of the fittest, the theory of value and surplus value, the leitmotiv and its function. "The public could thus enjoy the double pleasure of simpleness and profundity. . . . Physical struggle led to survival, physical labor to value, physical object to musical theme, and at the end each system yielded the most exalted objects of contemplation; the adaptation of living forms; a perfect state...
When the President last week ordered some 832,000 new 21-year-olds to register for the draft July 1, he fell in with this trend. In theory, the new registrants will be at the bottom of the order lists in their local districts. In actual fact, the fit and eligible among them will soon find themselves at or near the top. By the end of this year, the Army hopes to be taking nearly all of its new recruits (60,000 a month) from the 21-25 draft bracket...
They saw two ships pass, and signaled frantically but without avail. They fought to keep hold of their minds. Widdicombe broke off his front teeth trying to eat his shoes. Tapscott spent most of the time torpid in the boat's bottom...
...careless Occidental plutocracy of Shanghai the Japanese invasion was the beginning of the end. When in 1937 the Japanese took over a large section of the city, the bottom dropped out of the Chinese dollar, in which Shanghai collected its taxes. For three years the Settlement Government staggered along as best it could, went into a decline last summer when its British garrison left for Singapore...