Word: buck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week Mr. North reached into a $250,000 "nut" acquired early in the season, paid off the roustabouts. He also paid off the thin man, the fat woman, the clowns, the midgets, most of whom agreed with Star Performer Frank ("Bring 'Em Back Alive") Buck that they should take the cut, go ahead with the show, and set up a more cooperative union than A. F. of L.'s American Federation of Actors...
Civic, provincial, federal officials "passed the buck" to each other while Vancouver's liberal societies demanded work for the men, the Y. M. C. A. provided daily "delousings," women's organizations fed the sit-downers, most of Vancouver showed sympathy...
...time Kessler died, in 1900, Royal Dutch was a respectable little company, with wells all over the Dutch East Indies and markets throughout the East. And Deterding, who succeeded Kessler as managing director, was dreaming of fighting Rockefeller. By 1903, backed by the Rothschilds, he set out to buck Standard Oil. Deterding lost more than $4,000,000, but fought Standard to a standstill (in spite of the free lamps Standard gave away) and won a market in China. From then until the War he was busy grabbing up new properties in Mexico, Venezuela and California...
House Masters have for some time resented noisy swarms of outsiders who attend House dances, and unfortunate incidents of a personal nature have on one or two occasions added to their prejudice. But their passing the buck to the H.A.A. is completely unwarranted, since they have no right to resent and presence of other undergraduates and their guests from stands and playing-fields...
...American field History 5 is ordinarily required for admittance into advanced American history courses. Unless a thorough course has been taken in school, it is necessary for those intending to enter the American field. The numerous hour exams make it elementary, but the reading is comprehensive and Buck's lectures good. With Professor Morison's personality History 60 is a delight for the American specialist; last year Nettels was very good. History 62a gives an economic approach to America. The most important course to the American concentrator is 63; although his humor is pleasant. Professor Schlesinger's lectures...