Word: bucketfuls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tigers have tangled in four games before, only one of the games was a League encounter, the other three being in the form of an unofficial series at Lake Placid during the Christmas recess. In their one League encounter with Princeton last month, the Hoddermen upset the dope bucket with a 5 to 2 victory...
Climaxing a bitter uphill fight by the inimitable Charley Lutz, Sam White got the bucket that put the Feslermen into a 26 to 25 lead with the clock showing only five minutes to play. After this they were never headed and went merrily on their way to chalk up a well-earned triumph...
With 700,000 oppressed Jews to succor, this first offer was only a drop in the great bucket of the Jewish colonization problem...
...Campbell snorted: "You can't catch water in a bucket that is already full." Authority Chairman Fritz Englehard retorted that the flood control phase of the project will not be complete until Marshall Ford Dam is finished, 18 months hence. The present dams are not supposed to. control floods, but to produce power. Even so, the uppermost dam, Buchanan, would not have been too full to hold the flood but for inadequate river readings from upstream, which had let floodwaters catch the engineers napping. Dissatisfied flood victims, remembering that the Authority had taken credit for holding back a similar...
...Dumped a bucket of water on the dying embers of emergency railroad legislation. With carloadings at the year's lowest last week and 141 Class I roads reporting a $28,000,000 loss in March against a $24,000,000 net income in March 1937, Franklin Roosevelt tried to spur Congress to pass some of the proposals which have languished there for two months. But this week, after a conference with Senate Majority Leader Barkley, it was admitted that the roads would have to remain in the ditch until Congress meets again next January...