Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...medical profession ... [is] closer to scraping the bottom of the bucket . . . than any other occupation, trade or profession." So warned Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association...
Adams ran up a big total of points in trouncing Dunster 35 to 21. Little Ray Holtan, whom his teammates have dubbed the "bucket" because of his unusual shooting ability with either hand, led the Gold Coasters with 17 points. A newcomer to the Adams House squad, Bill Jones, played an excellent defensive game, holding Dunster's star, Bergman, to much less than his usual number of points...
Price. One step was to set up a two-price system for copper. Year ago (TIME, Dec. 2) the Government figured out that increasing prices would not increase U.S. copper production more than a drop in the bucket, decided to keep the price of copper at 12?. Last week, needing the drop, the Government, without altering this general price, decided it would pay more for marginal copper that could not be produced...
...gunnery trophies and two turret Es. Says a pal: "Spike's idea of a perfect target practice was to shoot the masts off the target ship from 8,000 yards, starting with the top and working down. Throwing shells into the hull was shooting fish in a bucket...
...weeks powerful Moscow transmitters have interrupted German news broadcasts with a raucous, heckling voice called Ivan The Terrible or Der Snag (TIME, Sept. 8), which yells such comments as "Hitler kicks the bucket!" By last week the Axis had learned how to heckle back...