Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aware of the need for improvement in inventory figures, think that they can be misleading because methods of reporting differ widely, and some companies do not report fully for competitive reasons. Inventories are now dropping but the figures give no solid indication of how close manufacturers are to the bottom of their supplies and when they will have to start buying again-both vitally needed facts on which to judge an upswing in the economy...
...time the Music Department offered several courses in music literature which were very popular with non-concentrators and auditors. In the past few years, the number of these courses has decreased until now, when it has apparently reached rock-bottom. The Department caters almost exclusively to the concentrator, offering a large number of theory courses which are too specialized to be of general interest...
Every 15 miles another team measures the strength of gravitation, which gives clues about the earth's crust deep under the ice. Every 30 miles seismologists bore a hole in the ice and explode a charge of dynamite. Waves from the explosion travel to the bottom of the ice and into the rock beneath it. At each boundary between ice and rock or between layers of different rock, some of the waves are reflected up to the surface, and when they are recorded by the proper instruments they tell the scientists what they have found under the mile-thick...
...leave a good balance, with no worse effect than a shortening of the trunk. And Margie's case was severe. Special Surgery doctors grade cases by a technique developed by one of their leading scoliosis specialists. Dr. John R. Cobb; with a protractor, applied to the top and bottom vertebrae of the curve on the X ray, they measure the total deviation from a straight line. Up to 30° is rated mild, rarely needing operation; 30° to 60° is moderate, and beyond that, severe. Margie's had reached 97° by the time...
...fear the fur, the trend to suburban living-with its more casual dress-trimmed the market more. Women also became choosier. Many passed up muskrat, squirrel, and other less expensive furs for good cloth coats-or waited until they could afford mink. By 1953 fur sales were scraping bottom at $250 million...