Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Paul H. Buck, Director of the University Libraries, commented "This is just another scheme to spend the University dollar on the undergraduate," but he allowed the CRIMSON to set up an exhibition (see right) on the bottom level which illustrates the benefits available under the new plan for photographic education...
...plane circled for its landing, Padre Gonzalez Salas quietly pledged himself, if the passengers were saved, to crawl on his hands and knees from the bottom to the top of the Spanish hill called Cerro de Los Angeles. At last the Constellation seemed to hover for a moment over the runway; then it touched and skidded, screaming and careening, while a U.S. Air Force crash truck sped alongside ready to spray it with a flame-extinguishing foam...
...bottom of the hill, Carlos Gonzalez Salas dropped to his knees and began the steep ascent up 200 yards of mud and boulders. Yard after yard, he placed his knees among the sharp stones; beside him struggled his companions, helping him bodily over almost impassable boulders. A training plane from a nearby army field circled low over the tiny group toiling so slowly up the hillside...
When he ripped through the cloud cover at 8,000 ft., Smith realized that he had two alternatives, neither of them good. "I knew that I had no chance at all by bailing out," he says, "but I preferred this to getting washed away by sand on the bottom of the ocean...
...tables of the mind, sipping moments of beauty and watching the passing show with its persistent drama and recurring vanities. Even if building towers of systematic truths had been congenial to him, Santayana banished it with his basic premise, i.e., "Chaos is perhaps at the bottom of everything." His letters, edited by his longtime confidant and disciple, Philosopher Daniel Cory, cover 66 years, from the year of his Harvard graduation through the teaching days and European travels to the comfortable room in the hospital retreat in Rome, among whose ministering nuns Santayana died...