Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...United States 2000 miles further westward, and would necessitate doubling the number of ships in our navy, increasing the army by 15,000 men, and it would cost $30,000,000 to fortify the Hawaiian Islands. All of this would be to only gain a drop in the bucket of our commerce...
...article in the "City of St. Louis" much to their taste, as it is treated by Professor C. M. Woodward. This too abounds in illustrations - points of interest and public buildings in St. Louis. A Mr. Nevins contributes some weird stories of Salem Witchcraft and the "Old Oaken Bucket" is treated of exhaustively in two articles. Towards the end of the volume is printed a sermon on Abraham Lincoln which was preached by Bishop Brooks a quarter of a century ago in Philadelphia...