Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...varsity boat. Save with the brave and meager minority who believed in the new regime, up to a week before the race Yale's success was a foregone conclusion. The race, as one disappointed wearer of the blue expressed it, was a "procession." Yale, vulgarly speaking, carried the bucket. Harvard jumped into the lead the moment her oars struck the water, and though averaging about thirty-four strokes to the minute after the first spurt, to her opponent's thirty-seven, increased her lead at every stroke. On the last mile there were twenty-five boat lengths between...
...ideal on to his predecessor's relicts, so to say, and, to mix metaphors, the result is a very patchwork of policy - likest a crazy-quilt, Queen Anne's cottage, than any other product of the same human mind. Hence, too, the impossibility of the strictest economy. The bucket changes hands so often and so rapidly, and each carries it so differently from anybody else, that some water must be spilt e'er it reach the fire...
...Hall will be regarded with satisfaction by many. This convenience was promised for last spring and is now a reality. The new suite of rooms on the ground floor of Holyoke House at the Holyoke street corner are ready for occupancy but are as only a drop in the bucket when the need of new dormitories is considered. More than these there does not seem to be any change and not until more money is donated to this thirsting university will the other necessary changes be made...
...Volante, published at the University of Chicago, is of the opinion that Wordsworth was the author of "The Old Oaken Bucket...
...purchase a bucket of lime...