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Word: bottomly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: The Indispensable Ally | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Ordeal in London | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Great Catalyst | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Buffalo Bill's Mentor | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

Bird Lover. In Hamburg, Iowa, someone chopped a hole in the bottom of each of 16 duck hunters' boats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 14, 1952 | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

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