Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...point out that Letter Carrier Bolen's $3,100 [TIME, Jan. 26] is top grade pay? If Mrs. Bolen has difficulty with the budget, imagine the plight of us World War II veterans who chose the Postal Service for a career, and at the bottom grade pay of $2,100 a year must somehow support our growing and frequently evicted and homeless families. Under present Postal Regulations it will take us ten years to reach the $3,100 level, if we manage to hang...
Close Squeak. In Rochester, N.Y., Elliott T. Baker searched his house from top to bottom for that annoying squeak, finally found it in the clips of his suspenders...
...Medford, Mass., which first abolished and then restored Hell Week, "practical hazing" (e.g., cleaning and polishing the houses) had replaced such schoolboyish stunts as measuring the Charles River bridges with 13-inch codfish. Everywhere paddling (also known as "boarding," "hacking," etc.) was about as out-of-date as bell-bottom trousers...
...little to the southeast of this spot are the current Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League standings. In a bunch of teams at the top of the list is Princeton, with a record of two up, none down. At the bottom is Harvard, with the same record, but in reverse. And those few figures just about sum up the situation...
...substantial blanket not only reflects the sun by day, but traps any heat extant in the earth and pavements, depriving the air of warmth. This imprisoned heat is constantly eating away at the bottom of the ice sheet, the Observatory notes, and streams, sewers, and gutters are swelling by the hour...