Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exercise, Sabrina, is nothing more than a modern comedy of manners that tries too hard to be something else. The plot mixes equal parts of a million dollars, a pair of eligible sons of the household, and a Long Island estate. The attempts at moralizing, however, settle to the bottom and give the froth an unbalanced weight...
This discovery was no surprise to Bruce C. Heezen of Lament Geological Observatory, the Vema's scientific skipper. Two years ago, the Vema found another canyon south of Greenland, which it traced north and south for 1,200 miles on the bottom of the Atlantic. Heezen believes that there must be many such gorges and that they are the channels of mud rivers that formed the level plain on the ocean floor...
Heezen believes that they are the flood plains and deltas of "turbidity currents": rivers of mud, heavier than clear water, that coursed intermittently down the slopes of the continents and deposited their sediment far out on the bottom of the ocean. Most of the sediment, he thinks, was carried down in remote geological ages. The turbidity currents probably started near land. They cut deep gorges (e.g., the famous Hudson Canyon) in the continental slopes and dumped their silt and sand in deep basins in the irregular ocean bottom. When the nearest basin was full, the mud-river ran across...
...this theory the Columbia scientists took cores of the material that forms the abyssal plains. They found what they hoped to find. On top is a thin layer of "lutite," very fine silt deposited from still water. Below it is the coarse sand that was carried over the sea bottom for hundreds of miles by mighty under-ocean rivers...
...memos will be typed or printed on both sides. As every bureaucrat knows, writing on both sides does save paper. But as everyone else knows, this makes the writing on either side almost illegible. Later, to clear up a foggy point, Mansure decreed: "Over" will be written at the bottom of the page when both sides are used...