Word: buck
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...language scholars foregathered at the American Museum of Natural History, Manhattan. They shut themselves in a room, talked and talked, and all came out members of the Linguistic Society of America. Professor Hermann Collitz of Johns Hopkins is President; Carl D. Buck of Chicago is Vice President; Roland G. Kent of Pennsylvania is Secretary and also Treasurer...
...German 1a 1, 11 Harvard 2 German 21 Harvard 2 Government 19a Sever 23, 24 History B Harvard 3 History 1 Dr. Schaeffer, 1, 11, 13 Harvard 6 Mr. Achorn, 2, 23, 26, 28 New Lect. Hall Mr. Barnhart, 3, 15, 22, 30 Zool. Lect. Rm. Mr. Buck, 6, 14, 17, 27 New Lect. Hall Mr. Cram, 5, 24, 29 Emerson J Mr. Lear, 9, 18, 20 Harvard 5 Mr. Russell, 7 Emerson A Mr. Russell, 19 Borden-Major Emerson A Parrott-Wilkins Emerson F Mr. Russell, 21 Emerson F Mr. Salmon, 8, 10, 25 New Lect. Hall History...
...beverage liquor cannot be appropriately transferred to the Justice Department. The suggested plan would leave the supply of bootleg liquor with the revenue collectors, who seem more interested in collecting revenue than in preventing the diversion of liquor to beverage use. We would have a system resulting in a 'buck-passing' contest. It would be confusion worse confounded...
...officers elected for the coming year were: C. H. Buck 3G., president; E. D. Salmon 3G., vice-president; C. W. Edwards 3G., secretary; and G. F. Howe 2G., treasurer. Membership in the club is open to all Seniors in the college who are concentrating in History, and to all graduate students in History...
...dark, he heard a ghastly laugh, he writes, "long and loud, whining and wailing up from the forest, up from the gully, so I judged. I tried to reassure myself. Surely it was the howl of a hyena feasting on the remains of the dead buck? But even as my mind was suggesting this, my subconscious self knew that it lied. That criminal human outcry, it could issue from no animal throat. . . . Somewhere out where the hispid branches swayed, I know there was a man with white canine teeth giving vent to BLACK LAUGHTER! ... A long time passed . . . then gradually...