Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, while clearing the waters off the east Korean shore, the Magpie's wooden hull bumped a floating mine. The explosion sent her to the bottom, with 21 of her crew, including her commander Lieut, (j.g.) Warren Roy Person; only twelve survivors were picked...
...diplomatic, political and social elite of two continents," had been "enchanted" with the "charm with which the capital long has been familiar." She was "easily the 'personage' of the voyage." The Post's society editor slapped a two-column box around the dispatch and at the bottom ran a rewarding byline for its correspondent: "EUGENE MEYER, Post Reporter...
...hold the post, thinks that Harper's present circulation (159,357) is adequate, though he frankly wishes he "had the wit to get more without doing anything I consider unworthy of the magazine." With or without wit, Editor Allen can still attract top-notch writers for bottom-drawer rates. The probable reason, says Allen, is that "we deliberately edit for a minority of educated . . . people . . . the real leaders of America. We do not [try to] appeal to the millions of people who do not really know how to read or care to make the effort...
...school graduates ("The English don't have a democracy," cried one student teacher in the course of a history class. "They have a king.") The colleges themselves seldom have the money that other institutions have, and their professors-"the men who teach the teachers-rank close to the bottom of the prestige ladder in the academic world." The great universities and the liberal arts colleges consistently ignore their plight: "[They] have little right to criticize teachers' colleges for not doing well a job they themselves have hardly done...
...merely in your age, your glands, and how well you look in khaki. When the latest deferment brainchild is confirmed, he will be interested in your next hour exam as well. To get college men for the army, the General plans to hack away at each class from the bottom...