Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...statistics and reasoning leading to these conclusions precise, rigorous, and well thought out, but one cannot help noticing that at the bottom of all this is an ingredient somewhat less convincing: the questionnaire itself. As pointed out in yesterday's editorial, and as recognized by the Report's authors, the poll's questions require some guesswork. The questions used for this section of the Report are by necessity even vaguer than those used in the section on teaching methods, for they refer to what goes on within students--changes which are difficult to perceive and even harder to distill into...
...Crimson completed its scoring in the bottom of the seventh when Nahigian walked. Centerfielder Ted Cooney forced him at second. Cooney went to second on catcher George MacDonald's single, and completed the Yardling's scoring when the visiting second baseman bobbled Chauncey's grounder...
...unemployed; only 16% held minor or manual jobs. The rest were in business (53%), became doctors, lawyers or dentists (16%), teachers (16%), clergymen (4%), artists or scientists (1% each). The doctors were the biggest earners: over half making more than $7,500 a year. The graduates at the bottom of the economic pyramid: teachers and preachers (median income...
...telling performances. But the play falls far short of significant drama. It clearly concerns not just the plight of refugees, but the question of their always being foreigners, and the corruption that menaces them in a foreign land. Yet even while it interlaces these three themes, the play at bottom rests on none of them; at bottom it is pure domestic drama-the anguished struggle of a wife to shield a proud, helpless husband and to support him and their child...
Ornery Suns. The thing on the top of Billy's mind was what lay on the bottom of his stomach. "Boys," said a sergeant to his men one day. "I was eating a piece of hardtack this morning, and I bit on something soft; what do you think it was?" A private suggested: "A worm?" "No, by God." said the sergeant, "it was a tenpenny nail." One soldier summed up: "It goes perty greasey Sometimes." One statistic tells the whole story: more Union soldiers died from diarrhea and dysentery (57,265) than were killed in battle...