Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year later, "dancing" was viewed upon with disfavor by the University. Thus, "unsuitable and unseasonable dancing in the College" became punishable by anything up to degradation to the bottom of the class, and expulsion when other means failed...
...coaches, with good teams once again assured this year, don't want only established stars. They are willing to work from the bottom to build new material, and want to work with any men who have interest in track and reasonable coordination...
...been paralyzed by its conflicts had he not built for himself a sort of monastery of beautiful prose, which was greatly admired by the literary if it was sometimes suspected by philosophers. Santayana's first work had been a volume of sonnets, and poetic intuition was at the bottom of his first important work, The Life of Reason. This appeared explicitly when he modified it by Realms of Being, where knowledge is held to be "faith in the unknowable," and where he expounded the mysterious and accommodating "theory of essences" for which he became noted...
Geologists say that coal has the property of extracting germanium from water or gases that come in contact with it. For this reason, the top and bottom six inches of the seam generally contain the most germanium. Since the pure metal sells for about $350 a pound, a strike of rich germanium-coal would prove valuable...
Each boot is a leather "saddle" which supports Ferrer's thigh, knee and upper leg when his knees are bent. The boots themselves are supported by a canvas shoulder harness, which pulls the calves of both legs tightly against his thighs. Fitted to the bottom of the knees are fake shoes. Obviously, only camera angles which do not show Ferrer's real feet (i.e., front and close-up views) can be used. Since the boots are tight and painful-pressure on his kneecaps cuts off blood circulation-Ferrer wears them for only 20 minutes at a time, keeps...