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Word: bucket (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three, Hauptfuhrer has been the most outstanding. Despite his lack of practice, the six foot four inch football end has slipped with little difficult into his basketball work. He has impressed the coach tremendously with the use of his height, his speed, and his ball handling from the bucket slot at center. If not among the starters he is certain to see a lot of action on the boards this year...

Author: By Stanley J. Friedman, | Title: Sports of the Crimson | 11/30/1946 | See Source »

Lowell went to the well three times yesterday but was only able to fill the bucket once to nose out a scrappy Dudley eleven, 7 to 6, for its first victory of the House football season. On the neighboring gridiron, Dunster continued its winning ways by downing Winthrop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell Rings Bell 7-6, Ding Dongs Dudley as Funsters Prevail 12-0 | 11/1/1946 | See Source »

...statistics of the game show the Crimson gained 200 yards and one date with a Wellesleyite rushing. The passing attack of the junior misses failed in the heat, and the scoring laurels clearly went to a collection of non-collegiate rooters who stole the applejack in the water bucket early in the last period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bang That Ball, Brother, or How to Run a Hockey-Shoppe | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

Among the dimly lit midnight blue and rose appointments of London's newest and most expensive nightclub, the "Orchid Room," a middle-aged Briton swayed slightly in his chair, comfortably close to a bucket of champagne. From time to time he would wave vaguely at a French girl warbling seductively in the spotlight. "Vive la France!" he pronounced with dignity, "Vive la France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Normalcy by Night | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

...drew 30,000,000 fans to Harringay, White City and the 102 other British tracks last year. During the war, when there was not much else to gamble on, the customers thought there was dirty work but nobody did anything about it. (One suspected tactic: giving the favorite a bucket of water to drink just before post time, so that he bogged down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Dog Fight | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

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