Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your July 5 article, "Billy in Germany": Mr. Graham, never high up in my estimation, has now reached rock bottom. The old, old cliche about the French being sinful was used by Hitler and his associates. Is this why Mr. G. brought it up in front of a German audience? Not too wise either way for a Christian...
...latest American Journal of Science, F. Stearns MacNeil of the U.S. Geological Survey adds up the old clues to get a new theory: the rings were formed on dry land and later sank below the sea. He believes that coral and other sea organisms, growing on a shallow bottom, will build up a flat-topped reef (like many that exist today). In some cases, he says, such reefs were raised above the water, probably by changes of sea level because of ice ages, to become full-fledged islands. Then furious tropical rain went to work on the porous coral, dissolving...
...cars, only 298,000 under 1953. Sales are down approximately 150,000. But dealers' unsold stocks are now 44% higher than a year ago. Panicky dealers, resorting to suicidal sales gimmicks and price-cutting dodges, have let selling costs get out of control. Result: dealer profits have hit bottom at .8% of sales, compared...
...crossing network of strong piping welded to their sides. It loads the massive affair (weighing up to 250 tons) onto a big barge, and tows it out to the drilling site. Then a powerful crane, mounted on the barge, lifts the jacket and stands it up on the sea bottom, the tops of the cylinders extending about 30 feet above the surface...
...doodle turned into steel. It is a shallow-draught barge. Running through vertical holes near its sides are eight steel caissons. When the barge is being towed through shallow water, they stick up like lofty smokestacks. At the drilling site they are dropped, poking their ends into the bottom...