Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fifteen years ago, English, which has always headed the humanities, had an unquestioned supremacy, but Economics replaced it in 1929. The years 1934-36 saw English once again in the lead, but last year it hit rock-bottom, taking fourth place under Government, Economics, and History. No general tendency is obvious in the upswing of English...
...supersonic wave locater. The Germans apparently entered the war under the impression that the British still had nothing much better than hydrophones, which picked up the sounds of U-boat motors in World War I. Early in the war tactics were therefore to attack, then drop to the bottom and shut off the motor. This was meat for the ASDIC...
...however, is the "Big Corkscrew"-five great curves down a 34-degree slope through a glade 50 feet wide. Those who take it in tight curves close to the centre line pick up so much speed that they have no choice but to jump the abandoned road at the bottom...
Staving off a dangerous Quaker scoring threat in the last minutes of play, the Crimson basketball five nipped out bottom-place Pennsylvania 40 to 39 before a small crowd last night in the Indoor Athletic Building...
...desperate last-ditch effort to Break its fourth-place tie with Princeton in the Eastern League, the Harvard basketball team will go "all out" tonight at 8:30 o'clock in the Indoor Athletic Building as it attempts to retreat its earlier season win over the bottom-place Penn quintet...