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Radio is transforming the otherwise harmless air into a veritable bucket-shop bedlam, with twenty-one thousand transmitting stations between the Great Lakes and the Rio Grande. The government itself has begun to display distress signals. The Kellogg-White Federal Radio Control Bill has been introduced to bring some sort of order out of the present chaos of jazz-bands, sermons, crop reports, and sporting syndicates running simultaneously on the same wave lengths...
...college,--it is possible to "sit like a pensive bucket and be pumped into" by an enthusiastic but sometimes tiring professor; and it is equally possible although more difficult to wrestle with the hands of the pump and get the benefit of the exercise...
...insult to a man of his mettle (says Mr. Bell), with so many high crimes to his account, to hang him for having killed a common seaman on his own ship by banging him over the head with a bucket...
...here at Stratford in the spring, with the trees all greening, the flowers peering forth under the old dry leaves in the woods and the river Avon tuning up for its song of summer. Bill, what do you say to strolling down to the Red Lion and splitting a bucket of sack...
...method", in schools and colleges. President Lowell vigorously defends examinations against their detractors. "Teachers," he says, "often feel that examinations are needless because they are aware how much knowledge the pupil possesses, since they know what has been imparted to him. But how much has been poured into a bucket is a poor measure of what it contains if it leaks, and children's minds always leak, one never knows how much...