Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With almost half of the intramural softball schedule now history, the team standings are beginning to become coherent and meaningful. At this writing, Companies C and D are tied for the league lead. Close on their heels, however, is Company E, with civilian Lowell House at the bottom of the first division. The NROTC unit, Companies A and B, and finally Adams House complete the standings...
...State's Attorney and the chief of State Police asked the questions which were on thousands of other lips. How did the fire start? Eyewitnesses swore the blaze first smouldered at the bottom of the tent near a canvas section raised as a men's restroom. Why did the tent burn with that celluloid fierceness? Circus men said the 19-ton big top had been sprayed with a waterproofing solution last April. It had not been inspected before the show by the Hartford fire marshal...
These losses brought to 21 the total of German brass hats (20 generals, one admiral) killed or captured since June 6. Germany was losing manpower out of the top drawer as well as the bottom...
...knew he was badly hit, he didn't seem worried. Seven other P-515 came down with me, so I pulled up alongside the big ship, lowered my flaps to slow down to his speed, and then noticed a big hole about three feet square on the bottom of the wing, with flames burning inside and eating the skin away. I cut in and told him that the aluminum was melting away on his wings, and the flames were beginning to break through...
...citizens glared. Ribbentrop flew home to tell his master that Finland would tie up some 20 Russian divisions, prevent a Russian breakthrough to Norway and possible juncture with the Western Allies. Down by the harbor a stolid crowd watched flustered Germans dredge for 15 tanks, sent to the bottom the day before when a small and poorly loaded German freighter turned over near the quay...