Word: buck
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ship carrying men from a naval engagement, on the other hand an attack upon the same ship loaded with troops wounded in land service, would constitute no violation of international agreements. Or, what is more plausible, the Germans are simply indulging in a little family game of "passing the buck"--for the benefit of the neighbors next door...
HARVARD. WILLIAMS. Lincoln, 3b. 3b., Ward Emmons, 2b. l.f., Buck Conlon, s.s c.f., Richmond Owen, 1b. 1b., Boynton Blair or Murphy, c. c., Finn Hallock, c.f., s.s., O'Brien Crocker, r.f. 2b., Hoyt Hanin, l.f. r.f., Monjo Goode or Russell, p.p. Patton or Holmes...
...publication is wrong; that there is some mistake; that if they will drop around in a day or two the mix-up will be straightened out. And so the applicant "drops around" only to find that the one in charge is not there. Irregular office hours and "passing the buck" seem to be the law of the room assigners. Surely something can be done to insure the student against such unfair treatment and to bring about co-operation among the men renting dormitories, the college and the undergraduate...
...consequent extravagance attendant upon it. This has brought the expected reaction during the last few months, when we have had a period of depression. During this period business has been conducted chiefly on hearsay, and there has been a great deal of seatteration of authority, of 'passing the buck' when it came to making a decision of business policy. The great cry today is to do away with this, and to get back to normal. But what are our prospects of getting back to normal...
...every case grasping the spirit of the writer with a thoroughness and an intelligence truly great. Enunciation was uniformly good, every beginning and ending crisp and precise, ascents and descents of tone were excellently graduated. The men interpreted equally well the gentle philosophy of Praetorious, the resounding energy of Buck's "At Sea," Mendelssohn's smooth and flowing "Huntor's Farewell," and in Morley's enchanting "Now is the Month of Maying," following carefully the feeling of that light, delicate fragment of Shakespearean England, while into the final "Hallelujah, Amen," they put all the sonorous vigor for which Handel...