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...Hebrew, the fourth letter, Daleth is written Ψ. The Assyrian Daltu meant "door," or "jaws," the Greek Delta meant "mouth" of a river; the Hebrew Dal meant "door," "bucket," or "to draw water," the Assyrian Dalu meant "to draw water," and Dilutu meant "a bucket." The Luna constellation consisted of three stars arranged in a triangle, which could easily have taken the shape of both Daleth and Delta...
...hope is that other colleges will institute similar set-ups, for even our increased number of graduates will only be a drop in the bucket," stated Judson T. Shaplin, Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Education, yesterday...
...drove up in a light-blue Buick and said: "I guess it must take a lot of money to keep these old buildings in shape." Then, says Stone, he asked whether he believed in God, and when Stone said yes, thrust five $20 bills into his putty bucket and drove away. Stone also cleared his money with the police. "Now I plan to buy me a Bible," says Stone, the father of three. He is also planning to have a telephone installed...
...SECRET FLYING MACHINE, which Britain's Minister of Supply says may be as revolutionary as the jet engine, was successfully tested in England. The device is simply a 10-ft.-by-20-ft. platform, with two Rolls-Royce Nene engines, fuel tanks, and a bucket seat mounted on it. There are no wings, fuselage or rudder. Pilot sits over the engine and flies the platform by directing the jet blasts downward...
...eventually his moment comes. An assistant director with a voice like a backfield coach bawls: "Keep it quiet now, boys. Quiet. Quiet, if you please!" A gong bangs with doomlike clangor. A horrid silence falls. "Speed," mutters the man in the bucket seat of the huge Mitchell camera, peering through its eyepieces as if appalled. Then, while the 50 hairy ones look on in a sort of belligerent despair, while the tourists stand on tiptoes, while the director and servitors of the camera lean close enough to breathe on him, the actor kneels beside a chaise longue in the awful...