Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ocean currents are difficult to clock. The standard method is to measure the distance that a ship moves through the water and compare it with the distance it moves across the bottom of the sea, as shown by celestial observations. Any difference between the two figures is attributed to a current that helped or hindered the ship. The trouble with this system is that it gives only average current velocities over considerable distances and periods of time...
...electrodes trailed behind the ship. When the ship is swung 90° in one direction and then 180° in the other direction, the electrodes interact with the earth's magnetic field and so measure the motion of the water in relation to the sea's bottom...
Schliemann was convinced that Troy was the third city from the bottom, because there he found the trove of golden ornaments which he believed to be Priam's treasure, but later scholars think he was wrong, and that Priam's city was the third from...
...more snide press scribes may write, the Crimson also has not sunken to the obscurity of Centre College. Eastern football in general has skidded into amateurim and the Crimson has gone along with the trend--though most Harvard fans might wish that the Crimson were not holding up the bottom of the de-emphasized league...
Even to a man with a tin ear, oil-drum music is an advance over the ashcan-and-bottle music of the Trinidadian '305. By pressing out graded circles in the bottom of a section of drum, the Invaders get a melody job (the "ping-pong") with a range of two octaves. Other refinements: "alto pans," "tune-booms." and "bass-booms." For their Manhattan audience. the Invaders beat their way through some celesta-like calypsos and a Mambo in F. One listener compared the sound to that of "a Jovian steel guitar." Consensus: certainly the best back-alley balalaika...