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...tried to swim ashore. One ate a jellyfish and jumped screaming over the side. Another, in demented fury before he died, tossed the one bucket of rain water overboard. They agreed to hold each body a day to make sure that death was real. By the third week only Kelly and another mess boy were left. When his sidekick gave up, Kelly waited 36 hours before he tossed him overboard. "After that," he said, "I laid down and tried to make myself comfortable, hoping that I could die without any more trouble." He was lying there waiting for death when...
...game was one of the roughest games of the year as the Elis completely covered the Crimson players. Hugh Hyde and Bunks Burditt, in their regular slots on the double-bucket offense, were so much out of the picture that they had only a few chances to receive passes or take shots...
...medical profession ... [is] closer to scraping the bottom of the bucket . . . than any other occupation, trade or profession." So warned Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association...
Adams ran up a big total of points in trouncing Dunster 35 to 21. Little Ray Holtan, whom his teammates have dubbed the "bucket" because of his unusual shooting ability with either hand, led the Gold Coasters with 17 points. A newcomer to the Adams House squad, Bill Jones, played an excellent defensive game, holding Dunster's star, Bergman, to much less than his usual number of points...
Price. One step was to set up a two-price system for copper. Year ago (TIME, Dec. 2) the Government figured out that increasing prices would not increase U.S. copper production more than a drop in the bucket, decided to keep the price of copper at 12?. Last week, needing the drop, the Government, without altering this general price, decided it would pay more for marginal copper that could not be produced...