Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although all the acknowledged candidates are included, space is left at the bottom of the ballot for write-in votes...
...three months, the soldiers of the Revolution tried to pull the Télémaque off the bottom. While they grappled, speculations on the nature of her true cargo spread up & down the river's bank. She was loaded, it was said, with the fortunes of some 30 fleeing aristocrats, close to 3,000,000 francs in gold sent out by Louis XVI and a fabulous diamond necklace (reported value: 1,500,000 gold francs) belonging to Marie Antoinette...
...This condition cannot be cured, as Mr. Truman wanted to think when he called in Mr. Morris, by catching some more crooks. It is not at bottom a problem of law enforcement. It is a problem in political responsibility, which cannot be solved by investigation, which could be solved only by an election that brought into office men who have-what the Truman Administration once had but has no longer-a mandate, and with it a real working majority which gives it the power to govern...
...fair price for the bean fields, but the question of what to do about a displaced quarter-mile of vital state highway still remained. Like a link of pontoon bridge that has drifted downstream, one stretch of the highway lay useless at the valley's bottom, and the vagrant mountain sat camel-like astride the rest. Jordan's ministers estimated that it would cost $400,000 and 40,000 man-days of labor to push the mountain aside, and Jordan's budget could never stand it. Then up stepped John Monroe, who had come to Jordan...
...Teaching the Neighbors a system of numerals Hogben calls his "fresher" (freshman) course. For his sophomore course he casts about for some other topic that earthlings have in common with their Neighbors. The best one, he thinks, is astronomy. The "Venetians" (inhabitants of Venus), who supposedly live at the bottom of an opaque atmosphere, may know nothing about the sky, but the Martians should. Their atmosphere is clearer than the earth...