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...History" -sometimes through interpreters, sometimes (as in Lahore) with History's riotous sound effects running him competition. He and equally energetic Mrs. Coffin endured a schedule that sometimes called for three or four lectures and two banquets a day; 36-hour journeys in dirty train coaches; chancy bucket-seat rides in rickety aircraft. On one occasion, engine trouble brought Dr. Coffin's plane down at a tiny Chinese town which had no Western-style accommodations, but did have a local missionary who turned out to be one of Dr. Coffin's old Union students...
...third of the entire budget-and most of it could not be cut (e.g., $5 billion for interest on the national debt was untouchable). The Republicans, bent on economy, could squeeze only $94 million from the operating funds, which would be no more than a dribble in the bucket of $6 billion promised savings. But they left out $800 million for refunds on overpaid income taxes. Democrats cried "phony," pointed out that the money would have to be paid anyway...
...minutes earlier Frank had stepped on the starter and saw flames shooting out of the ventilators. With one breath he called for a fire truck. The bucket did the trick, but the vehicles decided to come along for the ride anyhow. Then, while firemen kibitzed, the amazed student stepped on his starter again and the motor started turning over like a precision watch...
...will be summer before Ep Hoyt's new building is finished, and Hoyt abandons the "Bucket of Blood" office he inherited from Bonfils.* But Hoyt won't break completely with the past. He is going to take with him the Statue of Justice (which has surmounted the Post building since its late proprietors took it from the old Denver courthouse). And across the front of the new building he will paint the slogan that decorated the old: "O Justice, when expelled from other habitations, make this thy dwelling place...
...straightest faces in all the world would not assure respect for a hose and bucket solemnly set up as a protection against forest fires, even though these do constitute "a step in the right direction...