Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most outstanding comeback of the past season was Leverett's rise from seventh to fourth place. While Lowell remained stationary at sixth, Adams and Winthrop dropped two notches each. Dudley stays on the bottom of the eight-House ladder. Eliot fell one standing...
...year and a half, reading copiously and taking detailed, index-type notes of what he read. He took his notes on tiny scraps of paper, often not marking them, and stuffed them indiscriminately into a black folding bag. Today, he can pull that same bag out of a bottom drawer of his filing cabinet and identify the origin of the miscellaneous notes from the different types of paper used in different countries. For years these same notes have been a huge index to hundreds of foreign manuscripts. Wolfson reads them, and when he finds a suggestion of relevant material...
...success has been hustle, and hustle is a hard word to define. It means racing onto the field after each inning (above left). It means taking an extra base on a slow throw from the outfield (left). It means staying ready even if you're not in the game (bottom left). The result: opponents' depression (below right) and a 16-2 win-loss record...
Actually, says DuBridge, science is merely one path to greater understanding. "Men climb Mt. Everest, explore the bottom of the sea, sail to the far corners of the earth, explore the atom, the crystal and the stars-all because they are born explorers . . . Are science and engineering just the tools for man's amusement and for his ultimate destruction? Let us say, rather-and more truthfully-that they are his ... tools in his eternal struggle to achieve his highest ... spiritual ends...
...This year we came out with seven Houses really equal as far as talent is concerned--with no Houses on the bottom," reported Dean Watson...