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Word: bottomly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Auchincloss Brown of Douglaston, N.Y. warned (and got his theory broadcast by the normally cautious New York Times') that the earth is about to upset-any minute now-like an overloaded canoe. The trouble, Brown believes, is the weight of ice accumulating in the Antarctic: the earth is bottom-heavy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Can the Earth Capsize? | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

...Julian Huxley, wife of UNESCO's director-general, in conversation with Jerzy Borejsza, an organizer of the congress. Intellectual Borejsza was as steamed up as Painter Picasso. Said he to Mrs. Huxley: "If my wife behaved at UNESCO as you have here, I would spank her bottom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IDEOLOGIES: The Delights of Intellectuality | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

...Wright thought it had been worth all the bother. "We can't teach the high art of the theater here," says he. "But there's plenty of time to teach the students Shaw and Shakespeare in school. This is show business, pure and simple, and from the bottom up." And he thought that he knew how to finish his doctor's thesis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Source Material | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

...Grand Isle, La. (see map, NATIONAL AFFAIRS). An oceanographer who helped plan the Normandy invasion also helped Humble. He gathered the weather data for a stormproof drilling platform that took over 5,000,000 pounds of steel to build and whose pilings were sunk 197 feet into the Gulf bottom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: At Sea | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

...tear-jerking ballad about the good old days; Ray Bolger danced a comic solo interpretation of the Joe Louis-Tony Galento fight; James (Tobacco Road) Barton played a drunk; Beatrice Lillie (who played the Palace in 1931 at $10,000 a week) sang There Are Fairies at the Bottom of My Garden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Back at the Palace | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

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