Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more light. Little recognized in his short (1788-1827) life, Fresnel (pronounced Fray-nell) wrought an optical revolution and indirectly saved untold lives by junking the mirrors on which lighthouses had long depended, instead put the light source inside a cylindrical lens with multiple-refracting bands at top and bottom. The resulting Fresnel lens (commonly pronounced Frez-nel) still has many maritime uses, is on sale by most ship chandlers...
...than in many a year. Ford Division Boss James 0. Wright said the new Fords "series by series will be cheaper than Chevrolet or Plymouth," even though "prices will be up somewhat." Since Chevrolet has dropped its lowest-priced Delray line and Plymouth has scrapped its rock-bottom Plaza, the lowest-priced Ford Custom 300 is expected to sell for less than any other car of its two major competitors. Ford will also slash prices of its slow-rolling Edsel by "hundreds of dollars...
...used to place Virginia way above its Southern sisters, next to Vermont and Wisconsin in godliness, but now I can't help but cram it down into the bottom of the barrel along with Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama and South Carolina. But, maybe ole Virginny just ain't what...
RUSSIAN DUMPING has kicked the bottom out of free-world tin market. International Tin Council countered by buying tin at 91? a Ib. But council ran out of funds, and prices plunged from 91? to 80?, causing heavy losses to tin-producing Bolivia, Malaya, Africa...
WATER Music, by Bianco VanOrden (254 pp.; Harcourt, Brace; $3.95), is at bottom an old-fashioned novel about the tortuous ways of young love, even if its style flashes like high-IQ gossip and the characters are as plausibly etched as perfect counterfeit money. In 309 East & a Night of Levitation (TIME, Oct. 7, 1957), Author VanOrden showed a nice disinterest in anything ordinary. Now she makes up ordinary faces as if they were being prepared for an Italian fancy-dress ball. Her young Americans are rich, educated and self-consciously tortured by love and the need to prove that...