Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freshman botany student knows, all of these reported events are biologically impossible, since they imply that trees grow from the bottom. Trees, contrary to popular opinion, grow from the ends of the branches and of the main trunk . . . H. E. BREWER Pullman, Wash...
Wirepulling. In Hong Kong, the Great Northern Telegraph Co. offered an $800 reward for information on thieves who had stolen 3.36 miles of its cable from the bottom of the China...
...Hermitage. American business biography abounds in up-from-the-bottom stories; few are quite so dramatic and revealing as Sarnoff's. Owen D. Young said that Sarnoff had lived "the most amazing romance of its kind on record." Horatio Alger himself could hardly have done it in one book; he would have needed Adrift in New York, Nelson the Newsboy, The Telegraph Boy and Joe's Luck or Always Wide Awake...
...degrees, drank ten gallons of tea during the frantic run. In the chart-room, two men tried to pick out the channel with an echo sounder. One thing was sure: the Amethyst had to hit the narrow opening in the boom or "she would slice off her bottom." As she approached it, a flare went up, Communist guns opened fire and the river erupted in waterspouts. Kerans saw a single light on the boom and prayerfully made a blind guess: "Steer just to port of the light." And the Amethyst went through without scraping her paint...
With Dantesque confidence, Miss Carson moves down into the sunless depths of the sea, describes the bottom sediment (in some places 10,000 feet deep), sketches the contours of the submarine mountain ranges, and speculates on the changes in sea shape. As she tells her story with scientific assurance and a happy freedom from scientific jargon, curious bits of information emerge...