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...differences like “sneakers” versus “gym shoes,” “sub” versus “grinder” or “hoagie” and “water fountain” versus “bubbler...

Author: By Michael A. Mohammed, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Vaux Conducts Survey for Online Dialect Atlas | 1/29/2003 | See Source »

Ignoring the CCA-endorsed councillor, Walsh rose from his chair to exit the council chamber. Cyr protested that Walsh was not listening to him and asked the Independent councillor to sit down. Walsh turned to, Cyr,pointed to his empty paper cup and walked to thewater bubbler...

Author: By Julian E. Barnes, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Family Partner issue Debated | 8/14/1992 | See Source »

Cold winter weather, which frequently freezesthe Charles' surface, might also impede a watershuttle. But Zimmerman said a bubbler apparatus,such as those used on upstate New York's LakeChamplain, would keep the water open...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shuttle on Charles Explored | 7/31/1992 | See Source »

...really. It seems that Victor has been sitting in the same wooden, straight back chair in Stillman library every day for the past three years, seven hours a day. Occasionally he fools some of his friends by leaving for three minutes to get a drink of water at the "bubbler," or a Doctor Pepper in the automated vending "Machine City," which crazy Victor calls one of the hottest pick up spots on campus. But usually Victor is more than easily accessible, and always ready to speak on the virtues of Yale. "I've talked to a lot of people." Victor...

Author: By Andrew C. Karp, SPECIAL TO THE WHAT IS TO BE DONE | Title: Weekend Odyssey in New Haven | 11/19/1981 | See Source »

...That's the best two minutes you ever spent," a teammate tells him later. But Hart knows that his finest moment came between the periods, when he and I are drinking out of the bubbler downstairs, and Martell comes down the corridor. Here is Martell, you understand, with his leading scorer, and the leading scorer in the City, out for the game and maybe a couple of more. He gives Hart the goddamn dirtiest look you can imagine, but doesn't SAY anything, and Hart just gives him a hulking Charlestown grin and clomps down the passageway in his skateguards...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: 'Hey Riley! Hey Riley you bum! | 2/7/1970 | See Source »

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