Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with twin decks, which are joined by big, vertical steel tubes that are driven into the sea floor by hydraulic jacks. The upper deck rides 50 ft. above the water and supports the drill rig; the lower platform is flooded and slides down the tubes to squat on the bottom for better anchorage. To move to another site, the lower deck is pumped out and refloated, and the "legs" are pulled back up. The main barge is connected to another, slightly smaller service barge with engine rooms, crew's quarters, helicopter platform, etc.. by a narrow steel gangway...
...Italy's marshy delta of the Po stands the small, bedraggled town of Comacchio. Noted chiefly for poverty, tuberculosis, and eels caught in the nearby lagoons, it had a period of illicit prosperity in the 1920s. When the Valle Trebba was drained by a reclamation project, its muddy bottom proved to be an ancient necropolis. Out of 1,250 tombs came bronze vases and candelabra, gold and silver jewelry and a wealth of beautiful pottery. Part of it was of Etruscan manufacture dating as far back as the 5th century B.C. Much of the rest was Greek of various...
Escape from the Ruins. Japan's moviemakers have made their comeback from the bottom. In the militaristic '30s, the Home Ministry's thought police haunted Japan's moviehouses armed with tape measures. They had the power to stop any showing, measure the films to make sure that no militaristic propaganda had been clipped from them. During World War II, the only films produced were propaganda, and when SCAP censors took over at war's end, the results were little better. Despite the censorship, a horde of leftist directors, writers and actors, who had been kept...
...order to insure the coordination needed in planning the Senior Week, the last eight representatives on the ten-man Class Day Committee would be the remaining top man from each House. In contrast, the Council would have the Permanent group take over the duties of both committees, with its bottom eight members elected on a preferential basis from the separate Houses...
...circled the car, squinting at its lines and lightly touching its smooth surface. When his eye lighted on a horizontal crease in the molding of the trunk, he shook his head. "That's not good," said Curtice. "You'll see that it casts a shadow on the bottom half of the lid. That shadow makes the car look higher and narrower. What we want is a lower automobile that looks wider." At the side of the car, Curtice stopped again. Why should the belt line (i.e., the line formed by the bottom of the windows) be straight...