Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that point the bottom fell out of the state's case. Judge Kenneth Wynne let the prosecution finish and then dismissed the indictment. Said he: "The State is unable to produce evidence that the deceased died from any act of the accused . . . There is no evidence here that she did not die from natural causes...
...either side of the stripped-down fuselage of a Taylor Cub, he fastened stubby wings curved into a smooth semicircle -the bottom halves of two 6-ft.-wide Venturi tubes. Toward the back of each wing he mounted an engine, its propeller tips just clearing the curve of the trailing edge. If his calculations were correct, when the spinning props sucked air through the U-shaped channels, Custer's plane would fly-like that West Virginia barn roof a quarter-century before...
Philosophers & Experts. From Rome, aged Philosopher George Santayana sent over his long-awaited Dominations and Powers. The old skeptic wrote as brilliantly as ever, but the book was a tantalizing rehash of his ideas on liberty and man's fate. His conclusion: "Chaos is perhaps at the bottom of everything." A more optimistic and challenging view could be drawn from LIFE'S Picture History of Western Man; one of the year's bestsellers, it lighted up the whole heritage of the West. In The Conduct of Life, fourth volume of a 20-year tetralogy, Lewis Mumford asked...
...games, this set of dice and roller will mark the recipient as a man of the world, whose fame and fortune are made on the next throw. It can also be given to those who play other games involving dice. The five dice fit into a compartment at the bottom of the roller, and the whole set cost just $3.50 at J. AUGUST'S, in the Square...
Willy was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to the life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you the law or give you medicine. He's a man 'way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back-that's an earthquake. And then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat and you're finished...