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Word: bottomly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only event where the Crimson allowed a Lion to finish first, Dick Au water (third from bottom above) showed fine back-stroke form to win the 150-yard individual medley in 1:39.8. Mary Sandler and Charlie Egan finished second and third for the Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swimmers Top Lions, 68-16 | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

...free schools for their 80,000 people. The sheikdoms-6,000 square miles of low, arid barrens fringing the southern approach to the Persian Gulf-look as though God here carried out a great scorched-earth policy. They typify the Persian Gulf without oil -nothing but sand, rock-bottom Arabs and hard-living sheiks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIX KINGDOMS OF OIL: THE PERSIAN GULF STRIKES IT RICH | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

...best American tradition, John Wayne started his trade at the bottom-as a property boy on the old Fox lot on Hollywood's Western Avenue. He was then a lanky young football player at the University of Southern California, equipped with an amiable grin, formless energy, and a vague ambition to become a lawyer. Like all genuine Hollywood actors, he was born (in Winterset, Iowa) with an alias: Marion Mitchell Morrison. When he was five, his parents moved to California and settled in Glendale, where his father ran a drugstore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Wages of Virtue | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

...Send No Money." "FREE, FREE, FREE!" cried Sears' catalogue in big bold letters-then added, in small type at the bottom of the page: "to see and examine at the Express office." Once he advertised a sofa and two chairs for 95?; buyers were flabbergasted to get doll's furniture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: The General's General Store | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

...force of 75, laid out year-round production schedules for him, and gave him a five-year-purchase contract which was enough to get him a bank loan to finance the new plant. Sears profits by such deals by getting low-cost goods made to its own specifications at bottom prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: The General's General Store | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

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