Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Haul Away. Off Newport, R.I., Fishing Captain Lars Fahlen dragged a net across the ocean bottom, suddenly found his 65-ft. boat going full speed astern and had to chop his net cable to save his craft, learned later that he had almost been caught by the U.S. submarine Flying Fish...
...meter course. At each of the 59 "gates," the flag-decked poles marking the obligatory turning points, Andy paused and made mental calculations. She carefully gauged each hillock and bump, guessed at her racing speed, and mentally mapped a line of descent to follow. At the bottom she rested, then trudged back up the course, stopping again at each gate to review and correct her calculations. She was adding her own figuring to the slalom racer's standard formula-"run it high and inside...
...graduate and a brigadier general in World War I, Wood has a favorite phrase: "Let's charge." (He means it in the military, not the merchandising, sense.) Yet he vehemently castigates the "military mind" in business, which he defines as thinking from the top down instead of the bottom up. "The military mind," says Old Soldier Wood, "doesn't know what makes our country tick." Bob Wood is sure he does know: free enterprise, whose "basic purpose is providing people with the things they require, at the lowest possible prices...
...House 'A' League Squash Eliot, leads with 23 games won and only eight lost. Kirkland is in second place, Elise behind with a record of 35 and 10. Duster stands at 17 and 13; Winthrop is fourth with a slate of 13 and 17. Leading the bottom half is Lowell House with a 13 and 22 total. Leverett has an 11 and 19 record to show for its endeavors, and Adams, in the last place, has won only nine times, but has lost 21 matches...
Then came the 1929 crash. Cobina blames herself now for being so heedless of business affairs; while the bottom was falling out of the stock market she was busy with cross-country concerts and social life. She had also lost touch with her husband. A few years after the Wright millions went down the drain, the marriage broke up. Bill went off with another woman. They were divorced, not without a scandal "spicy enough," she notes, "to share front-page space with the trial of the Lindbergh kidnaper...