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Word: bottomly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been to force the Old Australians to hump harder. Eager, gifted immigrant children are grabbing top honors in Melbourne and Adelaide high schools. In Queensland, Italians have become a major factor in the sugar-cane industry. Two Dutch immigrants are marketing a new plastic film to seal the bottom of sheep-station ponds and thereby save the precious water in the outback from leaking away. Australia's world-beating teenage swimmers, John and Ilsa Konrads, were born in Latvia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: The New Blokes | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

...obviously superior team, it may well underestimate the Crimson's strength and ease up for a respite from the grueling contest with the Midides. More or less on the bottom of the league, the Crimson could do itself a tremendous service by winning. To win, the team must play football vastly superior to what it has shown in its earlier games, and the encouraging factor is that the team is certainly capable of such improvement. To rise to the challenge and knock off the recognized giant of the League would give an incalculable lift to the team's confidence...

Author: By Alexander Finley, | Title: Penn Eleven Favored Over Crimson | 10/31/1959 | See Source »

With a diplomatic wink the unofficial Foreign Service Journal last week gave its readers in the U.S. Foreign Service some hints on rating their State Department colleagues in Washington's Foggy Bottom. Items...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUREAUCRACY: Status at State | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...wanted none of that solution. Suggesting archly that to be consistent CBS would have to drop such petty-cash guessing games as I've Got a Secret and What's My Line?, NBC said that it would make its own shows honest from top dollar to bottom, because "millions of Americans like and want them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A Melancholy Business | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...lead to bigger crops grown faster, and to control over harvesting times. "It's as if we had been hitting a carburetor with a hammer for years in an attempt to adjust it," says Dr. Hendricks. "Discovering this pigment is like learning that a screw on the bottom of the carburetor is what regulates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Toward Control of Growth | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

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