Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After allowing an additional run in the bottom of the inning, Ward settled down, blanking the Engineers for the rest of the game. Darkness forced the termination of hostilities after the seventh inning...
...varsity baseball team opened its Ivy League season yesterday afternoon at Soldiers Field, and by losing to Cornell, 4 to 2, it immediately moved to the bottom of the league. Barry Turner pitched seven innings for the Crimson and although he gave up three earned runs it is entirely possible that the game was lost when his back was turned to the plate...
...ukulele in the blind pig that she operated in Lansing, Mich., and out onto the floor came a skinny, freckled five-year-old named Betty June Thornburg, with her sister Marion, seven. While the speakeasy customers sipped needled beer, the blonde moppets sang and wriggled their way through Black Bottom and other favorite anthems of the year...
Jack of All Trades. Jones, born on a farm near Webb City, Mo., started at the bottom. At 21, he quit Vanderbilt University to take a $45-a-month job as "cashier, bookkeeper, janitor and meter repairman" for Doherty's Webb City & Carterville Gas Co. A self-taught wizard with figures, he moved up to auditor and treasurer of Doherty's electric company at Joplin, Mo. When he went to Manhattan that year for a company meeting, Jones's knowledge of budgeting so impressed Frank Frueauff, Doherty's partner, that Jones was made Frueauff...
...With a Silk Thread, Elsa (PickUp Girl) Shelley told of a throaty, sexy exactress married to a jealous surgeon and infatuated with a self-seeking young actor. Never did words seem more feeble or woes more protracted. Yet the play performed a miracle of sorts: after starting at rock bottom, it went steadily downhill...