Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rosa Ponselle Sings Today (Victor). Sixteen songs recently recorded by the famed Metropolitan Opera soprano who retired while she was on top in 1937. The bloom is gone from her voice, but it has moments of velvety smoothness, and its tone quality is even from bottom to top. Diva Ponselle still has a masterly command of expression that warms up even the oldest chestnuts. Among her selections: Schubert's Erlkönig, Brahms's Von ewiger Liebe, Sadero's Amuri, amuri...
Asked for help, Britain's Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell cooked up some glass spiked with radioactive scandium and ground it down until its particles were the same size as the Thames silt. Two drums of the hot stuff were dumped by derrick on the bottom of the Thames. Then scientists armed with Geiger counters traced the movement of the radioactive particles. Some of them were found eleven miles upstream, confirming the worst suspicions of the Port of London Authority...
Hydroplanes, which weigh 105 pounds, differ from the 300 pound utilities in that they have an air tunnel down the bottom of the hull which provides an air lift, and thus less water contact...
...steadfast. Last month G.O.P. City Chairman Robert Duffy, who owed his position to Meade, resigned and announced for Longstreth. Leader Edward Harris, after a canvass in his 27th Ward, also went for Longstreth, saying: "I thought it would be better for the party if committeemen took orders from the bottom up-from the voters-instead of from the top down." Other ward leaders pleaded with Meade to support Longstreth...
...appeasement days of the '30s, has since been shouted into hollowness by Communists and diehard nationalists. The national economy has been cemented into an immobile Maginot Line for the defense of the nervous and unimaginative: cartels at the top benefit the industrialists, social security and subsidies at the bottom take care of the workman and the farmer...