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Word: bucket (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...addition to the merman and the varsity, hockey and basketball squads, whose schedules have already been printed, the freshman and jayvee sextets and the yardling bucket brigade and tank corps all meet the Blue on the same date. A home meet with Yale winds up the season for the Jayvee quintet on March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H.A.A. Adds Six Teams To Winter Sports Slates | 12/12/1947 | See Source »

...impressive list of valuable exports: machine tools, railway stock, electric generators, mining and industrial machinery. It was impressive enough to touch off a House committee hearing this week. But John Taber, as usual, was overstating his case. Shipments to Russia this year were a drop in the U.S. export bucket: 1.1% of the total. He also seemed to have his laws and figures crossed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Calculated Risk | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

...James ("Big Jim") Folsom, the woman-kissin'est chief executive any state ever had, can play peckerwood better than any shoeless redneck out of the back country. When he campaigned for office, his "Strawberry Pickers," a hillbilly band, followed him everywhere. He waved what he called a "suds bucket" for contributions and shouted, "You furnish the suds and ah'll do the scrubbing"-i.e., clean up the state. He said he kissed 50,000 women during his campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALABAMA: Peckerwood Play | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

Berg has three possible starters for the other forward, Jim Gabler, John Pankey, and Dave Skinner. Gabler, captain of the Freshman soccer team last fall, was a star bucket man at Exeter last fall, Pankey, from Montana, showed both heels as a cross country star this fall. His duties will be as a spitfire, close-to-target escort for his long range bombing teammates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Frosh Five Meets M.I.T. In First Fracas Tonight | 12/3/1947 | See Source »

Science International. Actually, UNESCO's $100,000 was just a drop in the institute's bucket. Brazil would ante up $700,000 during the project's first year. Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and the Guianas, which border the Amazon basin, would kick in too. The "real progress," as Dr. Carneiro pointed out, was that the institute would be "the world's first truly international scientific undertaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEMISPHERE: Largest Laboratory | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

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