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Word: bushel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 21, 1930 | 4/21/1930 | See Source »

...Board has a credit balance big enough to buy every bushel of wheat on the American market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: Dollar Wheat | 3/10/1930 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: In Alaska | 3/3/1930 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/8/1930 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Camera! | 1/18/1930 | See Source »

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