Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have been a nerve-wracking victory for Stuffy McInnis was Cliff Crosby, who backstopped for the regular nine innings and then, taking the mound for the first time in his career, coolly set down the side in quick one, two, three order to wrap up the game in the bottom of the tenth...
...page illustrated pamphlet, Pereira Ignacio was told that Bums (bottles so disreputable that they must be discarded), Crocks (bottles chipped on the bottom) and Scuffles (bottles chipped around the trademark) are a hazard to the business and that there are ways of avoiding that hazard through careful tests, proper storage, the use of scuffing inhibitor compounds, etc. Meanwhile, the bottler's advertising department (whose expenses the Coke company shares on a decreasing scale for the first five years) was also getting instruction. Advertising must never be "competitive, offensive, tricky, brash." To be on the safe side, Coke...
Back of P. & G.'s omnipresent advertising is the smooth promotional touch of Neil McElroy, who moved into the president's chair only 19 months ago, when Richard Deupree became board chairman. Just out of Harvard in 1925, McElroy started at the bottom in P. & G.'s advertising department, plugged Camay toilet soap door-to-door, later directed ad campaigns for such products as Dreft, Drene, and Duz, which he made bestsellers. As president, he still likes the person-to-person approach, will talk soap to his wife's bridge party guests, or to anybody...
Levinson suddenly lost control in the bottom half of the tenth, leading the bases on walks, but pinch hitter Gordon Ellis ended the threat and the game by grounding into an easy double-play...
Boston newspapers contribute to the numbers racket by publishing the prof- ious day's winning figure--usually the three digits, from top to bottom, to the left of the decimal point in the "Suffolk Mutuols"; some pools make use of U.S. Treasury reports...