Word: bushel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stand with Ellis, and others, who are willing to set the candle in a candlestick rather than hide it under a bushel...
...Board has a credit balance big enough to buy every bushel of wheat on the American market...
...Department. Excerpts: "RICHEST GOLD STRIKE IN HISTORY THIS CAMP. . . . EVERY MAN IN WHOLE VICINITY THAT CAN GET TRANSPORTATION . . . IS GOING OR GONE. . . . TEMPERATURE STILL 40 BELOW ZERO. BROKE PIECES FROM GROUND VARIOUS SECTIONS; HELD PAN WITH DIRT INTO TUB OF BOILING WATER TO THAW OUT, THEN PANNED A BUSHEL, FINDING ABOUT $2.96 WORTH FINE-LOOKING WASHED GOLD IN TWO PANS. . . . NEXT MORNING STAKED CLAIMS ON GROUND OVERLOOKED BY OTHERS. . . . HOTELS CROWDED WITH STAMPEDERS HEADED FOR NEW STRIKE...
...berth on right wing. This leaves the other players to fight it out for the left wing post. In a couple of games and in the practice workouts, Everett has taken this position and carried out his assignments well. His light seems to have been hidden under a bushel so far and it would not be at all surprising to see him combining with Giddens and Wood before the season is much older. Everett is a fast skater, tireless worker, always ready to give and take, a player of the type of Chan Hilliard, the University Club's crack wingman...
...think the CRIMSON right in its evaluation of a distinguished faculty as the greatest asset of Harvard. But does one light a candle and hide it under a bushel...