Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nobody was able to locate Magee. At week's end the painstaking search of the wreckage revealed no sign of him. But a great crater gaped at the spot on which his vat had stood and a little lake of murky liquid lay at its bottom. Police asked a chemist to dip up a little of the liquid and analyze it. It seemed possible that it would contain the last, mortal traces of "Doctor" Magee...
...Middle & Bottom. The Russians' earlier denazification drives neglected smaller fry. They worked on the theory: "Kill man at top, utilize man at middle, convert man at bottom." During 1946, the Russians-straining every nerve to maintain German industrial production for reparations to Russia-had freely used millions of middle and bottom Nazis in shops and factories. According to the Russians' own figures, 27,994 office workers and 24,512 railroad officials employed last year were former Nazis. Half of Thuringia's high-school teachers were former members of the Nazi Party...
...grey hair and considerable rotundity before accepting major responsibilities is costing Canada millions of dollars in wasted dormant assets. American business wants Canadian youth, and deliberately creates attractive openings for them. Can we not attain comparable recognition here in our own country? . . . We are prepared to start at the bottom of the ladder, but won't you please give us a chance to climb up fast...
Nonetheless, the situation stands clear. Two successful dramas, one near the top group on the popularity ladder and the other squarely in the bottom one, will hit the boards this spring. The results should show whether or not as one puritanical undergraduate commented on the poll, "drama has no place at Harvard except as a critical exercise...
Army, Yale and Princeton normally round out the League, although the Tiger's this year are not in the running. While Dartmouth now rides the crest of the wave, the West Point Cadets are scraping rock bottom with no prospects of rising. Four League losses topped by a 9 to 1 shellacking at the hands of the Elis round out a generally dismal season. Wingman Art Snyder lines up as their only real scoring threat, while goalie Gerald Wojciehoski has stood up staunchly in the nets under a hall of flying pucks...