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...cold and wet, and carried him back to finish his first night in a warm bed. Gitano (gypsy) the boy called him. The two were inseparable, but very little else was safe within a rope's length of that savage young fighter. He charged the chickens, butted the bucket, larked with the laundry; when the time for branding came, it took seven good men to catch the black yearling and four to hold him down...
...Body & Bucket. The most obvious change in the environment as a man dives deeper is the increase in pressure: equivalent to a whole atmosphere (15 lb. per sq. in.) for every 33 ft. of salt water (34 ft. of fresh water) through which he descends. Much nonsense has been written about this "tremendous crushing force," Dr. Lanphier notes, but "the body as a whole, being made up of solids and fluids, is no more likely to be crushed than a bucket of water lowered into the depths." Damage can occur only when there is an unequalized difference of pressure...
...final few minutes saw a wild race for the century mark. With two and one-half minutes left, the score read 97-78. Then the Crimson, over-anxious to shoot, lost control of the ball several times. Bill Schreiber dunked in a bucket, to raise the total...
...Caterpillar Tractor's side-dumping bucket for crawler tractors. Unlike other buckets, it rests on the end of the rig, can tilt to 60° right or left, deliver load to truck without having tractor turn to dump...
...builders-and fewer economists -look for much improvement from the new FHA rates. "The FHA move is a drop in the bucket," wired Levittown Builder William Levitt to President Eisenhower, adding politely, "but when your bucket is dry, even a drop tastes good." Low-interest VA and FHA mortgages simply cannot compete in the tight-money market where businessmen are paying interest rates of 5½% to 6% without a murmur. Even in the mortgage market itself, conventional, non-Government insured loans currently bring as much as 6% in many areas, are far more attractive to banks, life insurance companies...