Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dozen mountain lakes, creating a waterfall 15 times as high as Niagara, to power the world's biggest aluminum plant. In Northwestern Ontario, engineers are draining a 150-ft.-deep lake; when it is dry, they will dredge away 70 million tons of clay and gravel from the bottom to get at an iron-ore deposit that lies underneath...
...grammar" schools, and there he will get a solid academic education that may eventually lead him to a university. If he does not do so well, he will be sent to a "central" or "secondary technical" school where he will spend more time on vocational training. The bottom 60% of the children will end up in a "secondary modern" school. There, formal academic training is at a minimum...
...them make their medical schools models for the rest of the U.S. Stirred to action, other schools eventually began trying to compete. They set up clinics, built laboratories, hired first-rate full-time faculties, raised entrance requirements. "The revolution thus accomplished," wrote Flexner later, "brought American medicine from the bottom of the pile to the very...
...elements of decent behavior. Ned was about twelve years old when he ran away to sea; at 15 he was a midshipman in the Navy. At 21, he was dashing off sea stories and editing Ned Buntline's Magazine (a "buntline" is the rope at the bottom of a square sail). Two years later, a recent widower, he was caught in a Nashville cemetery with the wife of a local auctioneer. When the husband opened fire, Buntline shot him through the head. An angry mob attacked Ned at the court hearing, but he escaped to the top floor...
Bird Lover. In Hamburg, Iowa, someone chopped a hole in the bottom of each of 16 duck hunters' boats...