Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thereupon Dr. McDowell cut into Mrs. Crawford's flinching side. Instantly her intestines poured through the opening, uncoiled on the table. Dr. McDowell attacked the tumorous ovary, cut it free, threw it into a bucket. It weighed, he later determined...
Confronted with this fact, silver speculators suddenly realized another: in less than a year the U. S. had bought some 400,000,000 oz.-a drop in the bucket compared to 12,000,000,000 oz. which are supposed to exist, but more than twice the world's recent (1931-34) annual output. For practical purposes the U. S. had already cornered most of the floating supply. Eager to profit from the corner, speculators helped the U. S. boost the world price to the U. S. price, 71?. Last week when it reached that level, Franklin Roosevelt raised...
...weeks ago the same thing happened on a smaller scale in Providence and neighboring communities. The troublemaker in that situation was a small baker named Deschene who left a bucket of cream puff and éclair custard in the open where vermin could...
...While working on the thirty-ninth story of the Chrysler building the other day, I had the great joy of accidentally dropping a full bucket of bright orange paint to the sidewalk hundreds of feet below. . . No, I never bothered to find out whether I hit anyone...
...accused of ulterior motives. But the overwhelming majority came and went in firm opposition to his principles and methods. Talks by Hearst-writers Richard Washburn Child and Bainbridge Colby and indirect offers to become wavers of the Hearst banner did surprisingly little to alter their opinion. Drop in the bucket though it may have been, the money which rolled from the Hearstian coffers to smooth the surface can be written in the ledger with red ink. Mr. Hearst, it would seem, is pinning too much faith in human stupidity. The Daily Princetonian...