Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nothing is more critical to this program than good teachers. When a professor who has the student's confidence criticizes a piece of work, if only for a minute, the effect is infinitely greater and more permanent than a lengthy treatise in red pencil at the bottom of a blue-book or essay. Perhaps the graduate student who writes there is a better critic than the professor; it does not matter, for the student doesn't know that, and the comment carries little meaning...
...light clouds, the SBD Dauntless dive bombers of Enterprise and Yorktown bore down undetected and unopposed. "Helldivers!" screamed a lookout on Akagi. Within minutes the dive bombers scored a fabulous nine hits and mortally wounded three of the Japanese carriers. Within hours, Akagi, Kaga and Soryu were on the bottom...
Under the burning sun of California's Mojave Desert last week, power shovels chewed into a sticky, greyish substance at the bottom of a quarter-mile-wide, 137-ft.-deep crater in the desert floor. In the past year huge machines had scraped off 7,000,000 tons of earth to expose this mineral prize: the world's largest known deposit of borax. To the housewife, borax is merely a household cleanser, 'but to industry it is the chief source of boron, a new wonder element and Jack-of-all-trades that can be used in everything...
...soft soap has kept the mass readership in a happy lather for the last half-century. But yesterday's suds, as that shrewd old party could have told the makers of this movie, just won't wash. The Painted Veil (1924), dragged out of Hollywood's bottom drawer, has faded so badly it is hard to recall that on Greta Garbo it looked good...
HEROIC measures have been taken through the centuries to preserve the art of ancient civilizations, but in some cases the best preservation was disguised as destruction. Swallowed up and believed lost forever when ships carrying them went down, countless Greek statues rested at the bottom of the sea for a couple of millenniums. Now many of them have been fished out, and it is plain that Father Neptune was a first-rate curator. Among others, three bronzes, of a god a philosopher and a youth (opposite), came up looking little the worse for their long immersion, were sent back...