Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pool Cleaner. To clean the bottom of a swimming pool without draining it, Poolmaster, Inc., of Burlingame, Calif., has developed a 4½-lb. vacuum cleaner on a 15-ft. handle. The machine uses water pressure from a garden hose to suck the pool dirt into a large detachable orlon bag. Price...
...Westchester appeal is a sorry infringement of the motorist's right of privacy. Aside from considerations of taste, it poses certain Constitutional questions. No one doubts that the Supreme Court would block any move of the Internal Revenue Department to print little mottoes at the bottom of its forms, like "A Family That Prays Together, stays Together." It seems unlikely that Westchester County has the right to sermon a similarly captive audience on the virtues of safety...
Every day in countless U.S. hospitals a doctor wants to infuse red blood cells into the veins of an anemic patient. So he takes a pint or more of whole blood and lets it stand. After a while, the red cells (40% of the total) settle to the bottom, along with dead white cells and platelets. A technician draws off the plasma and throws it away. At the same moment, possibly in a hospital across the street, another doctor wants to give plasma to a victim of burns or surgical shock. To save time, he usually gives whole blood, although...
...mugging goes on, it obviously goes best at the bottom of a pileup. Ball carriers who join the pros fresh from the unskilled slugfests of collegiate football learn fast how to fall with knees doubled and cleats in the air-a practice nicely calculated to scare off any unnecessary tackier. A runner who doesn't throw his arm in front of his face the moment he is brought down is either foolhardy or unconscious...
...acceptable and sometimes it was not. The one sure way to open the cornucopia of the back room was to produce an issue of LIFE.'' Explained the trader: "It costs one copper for anyone to stand there while the sand runs through the small hole in the bottom of my timekeeper gourd ... I am the only man in this village who can read words, but anyone can read pictures...