Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minutes earlier Frank had stepped on the starter and saw flames shooting out of the ventilators. With one breath he called for a fire truck. The bucket did the trick, but the vehicles decided to come along for the ride anyhow. Then, while firemen kibitzed, the amazed student stepped on his starter again and the motor started turning over like a precision watch...
...will be summer before Ep Hoyt's new building is finished, and Hoyt abandons the "Bucket of Blood" office he inherited from Bonfils.* But Hoyt won't break completely with the past. He is going to take with him the Statue of Justice (which has surmounted the Post building since its late proprietors took it from the old Denver courthouse). And across the front of the new building he will paint the slogan that decorated the old: "O Justice, when expelled from other habitations, make this thy dwelling place...
...straightest faces in all the world would not assure respect for a hose and bucket solemnly set up as a protection against forest fires, even though these do constitute "a step in the right direction...
...Curb traders grew richer (many made fortunes during World War I), they built, a building in 1921 on Trinity Place, got rid of "bucket-shop" brokers, and became a respectable proving ground for new securities. Though the same security cannot be listed on the Curb and the Stock Exchange at the same time, many a security proved its worth on the "Little Board" of the Curb before it moved on to the "Big Board." And many a small business finds the less exacting requirements of the Curb better adapted to its needs...
...proposals: 1) let the U.S. launch a huge cancer education campaign, like those on syphilis and tuberculosis, 2) let Congress up its $500,000 ("drop in the bucket") appropriation for cancer research...