Word: bottom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everyone is accustomed to seeing Harvard athletic teams near the bottom of the Ivy League, for, as the saying goes, this is not a school of athletes. But when the debating team in consistently near the cellar of the League and is overwhelmed by such schools, as Bates, Curry, and Joan Marshall, some other excuse must be found...
Section 34, with the exception of three bottom rows, was also disposed of. Frank O. Lunden, HAA ticket director, estimated last night that his office had sold some 1240 seats by closing time...
...small print at the bottom of the bill explains it all: "deprived of the privileges of the University . . . reinstatement is obtained by consent of the Dean . . . fine of $10,00 for late payment...
...bombards 54,000 customers all over the Southwest with as many as 250 leaflets a year, plus an annual 100-page catalogue and two supplements. He has taken a firm hold on the business of supplying Texas schools and institutions. He also buys up publishers' remainders at rock-bottom prices, dolls them up in new dustjackets, sometimes changes the titles a bit, and keeps them moving across the counters and through the mails...
...century, and the first ever made in the U.S. Yet Hogg's story is no mean satire; it might serve today as a text on the disease of pride; and above all it is one of the few horror stories in the language that really reaches the bottom of the well of evil...