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...Intrigue Becomes the Pattern." Yet all this is only a drop of progress in a bucket of despair. The fields and villages of Iran are owned by several hundred feudal families who take from two-fifths to four-fifths of what the peasants grow. Under those terms, the peasant is neither able nor eager to improve the land or h's farming methods...
Before Radiologist Quick can use the prize, Roosevelt will have to build a machine to handle it. Plans, already drawn by Physicist Gioacchino Failla, call for a derrick-like supporting apparatus in an underground chamber and a 3½-ton bucket of lead, mercury and steel to hold the radium and direct its energy in converging rays on deep-seated cancers. When the machine is finished some time next year, the hospital will ship the empty bucket to Belgium and have it loaded. Then the radium will be brought back to Manhattan and put to work...
...other inhabitants of Whitefield are bloodless, unfathomable creatures. Leondar's dialogue fails to give reality to his characters, and is seldom incisive in itself; occasionally a line like this appears: "What is three nights when we think of eternity? A mere ... how shall I put it ... drop in the bucket...
...impromptu demonstration for the Kirkland yearbook began at 2 p.m. and lasted until bucket-wielding fire-fighters took over the field...
Although Tech averaged about two inches shorter per man, the Crimson ball-handling was superior. Bill Hickey, Forrest Hanson, and Bob Bramhall out-fought the Engineers, and were consistently able to pass the ball in to Lionette in the bucket or a free man underneath the basket...