Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matter, began to be conducted by an organized group. The first volunteer fire company was started in Philadelphia about 1740 by Benjamin Franklin and the system soon spread to the rest of the colonies. Before the introduction of these companies every respectable house holder kept a pair of leathern buckets in his room. When a fire occurred the townspeople pulled out the fire engine, a crude, hand-worked pump which they kept filled by means of bucket chains extending to the nearest lake or river. One of these engines is shown in the accompanying picture with a fireman...
...allowed to keep any personal effects. They are given rough underwear, "hickory" shirt, brogan shoes, socks, gray coat and pants (stripes are no longer used). Their cells, 7 ft. x 3 ft., 3 in. x 6 ft., 7 in., get no sunlight and contain only a cot, iron slop bucket, tin cup, electric bulb. Letter paper, books and newspapers can be obtained at the proper times...
...prevention of crime and delinquency, that improvement in standards among the poor, is the surest way of creating social stability, the intelligent have shown a wordy, but not ineffective interest in these matters. Agitation for permanent reform, for enlightened democracy has seemed more intelligent than the drops in the bucket of individual slumming. This attitude has been furthered, of course, by the blatant antics of "service" clubs and that business men who have found that piety pays...
...football is the first act of the Freshman class. The Freshman eleven, facing Andover in its opening game, is the first official contribution of the entering class to the University. In the long run this contribution will be little more then the clink of a coin in a bucket. But there is a gain from in giving, and if the gift is small, the gain may be great...
Fire; smoke, and echoes of combustion struck momentary fear in the hearts of P. B. H. guardians late yesterday afternoon. An alarm was turned in. Emergency bucket brigades were formed...