Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brothers Karzas. To become the U.S. ballroom king, Bill Karzas started at the bottom of nowhere with his brother Andrew (who died in 1940). Immigrants from Greece 40 years ago, the brothers worked at odd jobs until they had saved up $300, then started a restaurant. When they had accumulated $6,000 they sold out and bought a Chicago nickelodeon. On $125,000 in profits, they built Chicago's first "de luxe" movie house, the Woodlawn, in 1917. Two years later they sold the Woodlawn and two smaller theaters to the Balaban & Katz chain...
Going My Way. In Goldthorpe, South Yorkshire, England, coal miner Charles Carter plunged 775 feet down a mine elevator shaft, landed on a descending cage, got off at the bottom of the shaft with only a broken...
...North Polar regions," says Andrews, "are problems of a different nature. . . . We have a great deal to learn about weather in the Arctic regions, the movement of ice, what lies at the bottom of the Arctic seas. . . . Today that region means rapid transport, strategic air bases, weather stations. . . . The Arctic will soon become a Broadway for intercontinental transport...
...Building in disgust. An eight weeks delay while awaiting replacement of a lost filling, drilling-out of a cavity, or a cleaning job seems a long, long time. Of course, really important emergency work of any sort gets immediate treatment, but the routine repair cases find themselves at the bottom of an interminable column of names. And, though perhaps to a lesser extent, medical care of a less-than-immediate danger involves a long gap between application and appointment...
During the war, the team lacked a coach and material, and under informal conditions had to limit itself to a single entry in the Massachusetts Squash Racquets League; this team wound up the season second from the bottom in a very weak Class C division last year, and lost to Yale, Dartmouth, and M. I. T. in Intercollegiate matchplay...