Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...while he can be shamelessly obvious, more often Porter is so dazzlingly dexterous that all the Tin Pan Alleycats bristle with awe. Nobody is cozier with words: for him, Winchell rhymes with provincial, suburban with Deanna Durbin, Nina with schizophrenia. Jehovah with Casanova, Lassie with democrassy, to the bottom I with hippopotami, a fine finnan haddie with my heart belongs to daddy, and Venetia who loved to chat so is still drinkin' in her stinkin' pink palazzo. There are images and characters in Porter that stick in the mind because of their authentic, ginny bitterness: the lovers whose...
...work with elaborate apparatus in a prefabricated laboratory did not solve the mystery; it added another mystery. Dr. Scholander found that arctic fish which live in the slightly warmer water at the surface will freeze solid if they are chilled in surface experiments to the temperature prevailing at the bottom. But when such fish were actually lowered into the cold depths, they did not freeze. Most of them were alive and active when hoisted back to the surface...
...mysteries of arctic life is how fish manage to survive in water so cold that their blood ought to freeze solid. In Hebron Fjord in Northern Labrador, the water at the bottom, 60 fathoms down, stays at - 1.0°C. (28.94° F.) winter and summer. There are plenty fish in it, leading active lives, but when their blood is extracted and chilled, it freezes at -.8° to -1.0° C., nearly a full degree above the temperature in which they live normally...
...Scholander's tentative conclusion: the pressure at the bottom of the Fjord (about 160 Ibs. per sq. in.) works in some unknown way in combination with the cold to keep the fish swimming and feeding when they should be hunks of ice. We'll come up with the answer in time " he says, "but there's a factor missing somewhere...
...reached the bottom in smear technique...