Word: bucketfuls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week this theory got a bucket of cold water thrown right in its face. In the New England Journal of Medicine, hard-headed Psychiatrists Robert Edward Fleming and Kenneth James Tillotson denied that there is any such thing as an "alcoholic personality." Anyone, they said, "can become an alcoholic if he drinks long enough and heavily enough...
...announcing imminent withdrawal of British troops from North China, on the flimsy pretext that they are needed in Europe. The British force, which has been a whole lot of cold water on the hot Japanese garrison at Tientsin, will be only a tiny drop in the B. E. F. bucket...
With that lengthy ladder and bucket of paint...
...style hand rolling mills to help handle its huge order book.) Last week word leaked out that Big Steel would install three new continuous rolling mills in its new ($60,000,000) Irvin Works at a cost of over $10,000,000, which is just a drop in the bucket alongside what Big Steel and all the Little Steel companies will have to spend if operations stay at capacity...
...first movie, two years ago, was "Live, Love, and Learn," made with Benchley, Robert Montgomery, and Rosalind Russell. "Benchley fell flat on his face and lay there dead drunk when he first came in, and when I entered, my trousers fell down and Montgomery drenched me with a bucket of water," recalled Woolley...