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...actually began to fall did firemen take cover, not in air-raid shelters but simply by jumping for the nearest doorway or partial shelter. One elderly woman, so paralyzed by fear that she was unable to go to a shelter, found herself watching the firemen, began brewing them a bucket...
When they get to Española (Haiti) Don Narciso sees what just six years of white rule can do: Christianized Indians who die rather than work and who, through mere imprisonment, die in a few days "like fish in a bucket." Hardly has Don Narciso got his shore legs when he witnesses the burning alive of sixteen here tics; he sees next what happens to 20,000 Indians in spontaneous desperate rebellion. Stark naked, all of them, men, women and children, they advance in a brown wave, using stones and sharpened sticks, to dissolve into panic before the first...
...Senate Finance Committee) sold lukewarm Franklin Roosevelt on this departure from New Deal practice, then wrote the President's ideas into "a bill to provide for the expenses of national preparedness. . . ." Sure to pass, the bill was no less sure to be a mere drop in the enormous bucket of Defense...
...thought he was pretty old. But Geology told him that man had been living on the earth for 200,000 years. That was just a drop in the bucket. The oldest dinosaur egg, in the University Museum, is about 200,000,000 years old. And even this figure cannot compare with the age of the earth, which is probably in the neighborhood of 2,000,000,000 years...
When 11,000 Harvard alumni convened in Cambridge at the Tercentenary celebration in 1936 it was the biggest alumni gathering in history, but was only a drop in the bucket in comparison with the University's 77,748 alumni...