Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...oceanographer's trade. The brownish-pink PGR (Precision Graphic Record), from which the portrait emerges, is used to make a portrait of the ocean floor. The record that served as a model was actually made on July 15, 1958 and shows part of the profile of the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean some 70 miles northeast of St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. Behind the graph paper is a yellow Nansen Bottle, used by oceanographers to take water samples, temperatures, and other deep-water measurements. The sailing ship is the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's pioneer research vessel, the Atlantis...
What's more, other scientists have abruptly rediscovered the ocean. Geographers and geophysicists now realize that most of the world's surface lies beneath the ocean, and can now recite glibly the truism that the bottom of the ocean is not as well known as the near side of the moon. Discoveries follow every voyage. Under the Pacific, oceanographers have found deep trenches, at least one of them big enough to contain seven Grand Canyons, and a 1,000-mile range of high mountains that no one knew existed until just one year...
...contributed more than money. War-developed sonar made depth measurements far more sensitive, giving oceanographers a more accurate look at the ocean's bottom than they had ever had before. The new loran, which can fix a ship's position within a quarter of a mile in daylight, night, or in the thickest fog, enabled a far more detailed and accurate study of ocean currents, and oceanographers launched zealously into new studies with their new tools...
...first was to promise elections this year of village panchayats (councils) to take over local police, judicial and administrative duties. Once the panchayats are functioning, work will begin on a new constitution. By starting at the bottom, Sandhurst-trained Strongman Khan hopes to build democracy slowly, from the bottom up, so as to avoid reinstating the corrupt...
Supermarkets often shunt private labels to bottom shelves, place their own house brands at eye level. National brands are often stocked in insufficient quantities, and money from national-brand cooperative advertising has been known to find its way to advertise private brands in local newspapers...