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Word: pumpings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tarnation, it wasn't ready yet!", said an annoyed Undergraduate yesterday noon when informed that his plan for having free beer flow from the pump in front of Hollis Hall had been exposed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beer Flows From Old Pump, But Not Enough to Quench Everybody's Thirst | 1/20/1937 | See Source »

...three cans of beer in the tank beneath the pump and was planning to fill it with enough to last 24 hours of steady pumping. "I figured that would be enough for one day," he added thoughtfully...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beer Flows From Old Pump, But Not Enough to Quench Everybody's Thirst | 1/20/1937 | See Source »

Unfortunately some blundering student happened along in the meantime and pumped the pump handle in passing with the same indifference that he would pull a fire alarm. But when he saw the foamy liquid gush forth into the trough, he let fly all thoughts of indifference, inertia, and psychic income, and lunged toward the dwindling stream of beer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beer Flows From Old Pump, But Not Enough to Quench Everybody's Thirst | 1/20/1937 | See Source »

Food and drink excepted, the only non-green object to retain its true color is the red-and-yellow Shell miniature gasoline pump through which cigaret-lighter fluid is dispensed. The fluid, alas! has succumbed to the mania of the "Man in Green" (so named by Believe-It-Or-Not Ripley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 18, 1937 | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

Portentous was his budget in 1933 cutting Government expenses by $360,000,000, his budget in 1934 proposing to spend $10,000,000,000 for priming the pump, his budget in 1935 asking a lump sum of $4,000,000,000 for him to spend as he wished on Relief, his budget in 1936 when he proclaimed, "Our policy is succeeding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: 35 Billion 26 Million | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

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