Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...silver to the ton. Prospectors poured in, and made one jewelry-store strike after another. In four years, 44 mines were opened. By 1916 Cobalt mines had produced 300,000,000 oz. of silver. By 1922 the richest veins had petered out and the price had hit rock bottom...
...self-sustained and capable of managing its affairs, even to the extent of defending itself against the whole world. . . . In this structure, composed of innumerable villages, there will be ever widening, never ascending circles. Life will not be a pyramid with an apex sustained by the bottom but an oceanic circle whose center will be individually always ready to perish for the village, the latter ready to perish for the circle of villages, till at last the whole becomes one life composed of individuals. . . . In this there is no room for machines . . . that would concentrate power in a few hands...
...transmute all women into Lana Turners. As for the male prototype: "a very large head, one eye, an ear bent permanently to receive a telephone call, one hand with only a thumb and forefinger so it can sign checks and documents, no legs, and a very large bottom to sit in a swivel chair...
...BIKINI ATOLL--The floor of Bikini Lagoon was a junkyard of naval might today, testifying to the terrific power of the underwater atomic bomb whose explosion sent 11 vessels to the bottom and heavily damaged at least four others...
Racing shells are, according to Haines, 24 to 25 inches wide; while the barges are a welcome four inches wider. Another important difference is the so-called "false keel." This is a six foot long stabilizing fin on the bottom of the barge. The false keel projects about three or four inches downward...