Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...insult to a man of his mettle (says Mr. Bell), with so many high crimes to his account, to hang him for having killed a common seaman on his own ship by banging him over the head with a bucket...
...here at Stratford in the spring, with the trees all greening, the flowers peering forth under the old dry leaves in the woods and the river Avon tuning up for its song of summer. Bill, what do you say to strolling down to the Red Lion and splitting a bucket of sack...
...method", in schools and colleges. President Lowell vigorously defends examinations against their detractors. "Teachers," he says, "often feel that examinations are needless because they are aware how much knowledge the pupil possesses, since they know what has been imparted to him. But how much has been poured into a bucket is a poor measure of what it contains if it leaks, and children's minds always leak, one never knows how much...
...their offerings are actually the gilt-edged propositions they represent them to be, why should they come all the way out to Cambridge to offer them to students? If you must gamble with the odds against you, play roulette. But don't make Harvard College a paradise for bucket-shop operations...
college building built in America, and entirely destroyed it, in 1764. Only energetic work by student bucket brigades saved Massachusetts Hall, which began to burn several times. Harvard Hall contained the College Library of 5,000 books, including John Harvard's collection. Of this collection only one volume was saved--"The Christian Warfare Against the Devil, World, and Flesh...