Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rooms. Only one family has a toilet, he reported; the rest run the risk of being fined $4 for relieving themselves on nearby railroad tracks. To keep alive, boys resort to stealing, girls to prostitution. "We sleep four at the top of a bed and four at the bottom," said one inhabitant. "My uncle, my husband, my sister, myself and four children. We keep the door open to breathe better...
...Census last week: the U.S. population of about 172 million covers the 3,000,000 sq. mi. of land at the factor of 57 people per sq. mi. Libya (estimated 1955 pop. 1,105,000), with about two people for each of 679,360 sq. mi., is at the bottom of the list, and the U.S.S.R., biggest in land area (8,600,000 sq. mi.), has an estimated (1956) population of 200,200,000, or 23 people per sq. mi. Countries with densest populations per sq. mi. (as of 1955): The Netherlands, 858; Belgium, 753; United Kingdom...
...people caught up with me and took 65% of my earnings," said she with a certain sadness. "If I'd had more sense I'd have owned whole estates by now. But I bought cars and boats which ended up scuttled on roads or at the bottom...
...witty London revue. They warble their uncertain, Oxford-accented way through a series of wandering digressions on the London bus system (A Transport of Delight), the morals of the clubman (Madeira, M'Dear?), the woes of the hi-fi fan ("What do you get? Flutter on your bottom"). They do their best work, Flanders howls, in a snug little house in "an amusing mews," where...
...time, money and effort that go into formal management training, some companies consider the whole thing a monumental waste of time. They feel, like Douglas Aircraft, that without any help from training schools, "the cream will come to the top and the skimmed milk will stay at the bottom." The management-training-school graduate, they point out, often faces a flock of frustrations on his return to work. "Lots of men feel that being sent to college is like being told they're going to be vice president," says one executive. "When it doesn't happen to them...