Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high seas in peacetime." *Cable companies have had similar trouble with fishing trawlers for years. In cable legend, a Chinese fisherman is supposed to have once mistaken a heavy, metal-sheathed cable for gold; triumphantly, he hauled in yard after yard as his little junk slowly sank to the bottom...
Local fishermen guided Gargallo to a reef where they sometimes fished up relics for sale to tourists. One mile offshore, he found weed-grown ruins, chunks of cut marble, and "something that looks like a street or a pier stretching along the bottom for about 100 ft." The ruins are in water 30 ft. to 50 ft. deep, and they cover 20 acres...
...happiness, and she resolves to explore "the strange land of love where tomorrow' is not always a frightening word." Cluttered with romantic folderol. Sigh nonetheless says something about man's inhumanity to man and fleetingly embodies the Simone Weil text it takes for its theme: "At the bottom of the heart of every human being . . . there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience . . . that good and not evil will be done...
...Development of high seas engineering techniques and equipment for sampling the ocean bottom and drilling deep holes in it. It has been known for years that rich deposits of manganese, nickel and cobalt cover much of the ocean bottom...
...next man to make a big mark on A. T. & T. was President Walter S. Gifford, a financial wizard and career telephone man who came up from the bottom. Gifford steered the burgeoning company from 1925 to 1948 through boom, depression and World War II, laid the foundation for its explosive postwar growth. During Gifford's reign, the Bell System's operating revenues rocketed from $655 million to $2.2 billion, and its phones multiplied like little black Shmoos from 11.2 million to 28.5 million. Gifford guided A. T. & T. intact through a federal antitrust investigation during...