Word: buck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this institution as is the dome over this building." Since Harry's chief functions are guarding the committee's door and running errands, observers believed last week that Harry would continue to sit by the door, let his assistant do the leg work. If that young buck (to be chosen by Harry) serves as wisely & well for the next 63 years he, too, may get an assistant. That would be in the year...
...attitude toward earning a living that Bull Moore particularly charmed the streetcorner, poolroom and blind-tiger high-school set of Syracuse in the Prohibition era. Work did not appeal to him. Just where this adventurous buck got his money was something of a mystery but his pockets always seemed to be well lined...
Mice are adult at the age of twelve weeks, "old men" at two years. Six weeks after birth they are quite tame and can be taught tricks (climbing ladders, working treadmills). They are ready to mate at the age of seven weeks, but wise breeders wait until the buck has reached ten weeks, the doe twelve. Each buck has six wives at a time, but every couple of months all but one doe are taken out to give the buck a rest. A mouse is pregnant 19 to 21 days, litters are from five to ten mouselets. Bucks are never...
...Rockettes during their two-week stay to help keep their discipline and deportment up to its high U. S. standard. For their official appearance, the Rockettes will dance four of their most famous routines in 16 minutes: Military March, in which 72 legs operate as synchronously as two; a buck & wing number; Midshipmen, a fast, stylized version of Annapolis drills; Beguine, a sultry, rumba-ish performance for which the girls make up like mulattoes...
...Yorkers and most significant of the whole convention was the one to amend the Guild constitution so as to throw the organization open to workers in advertising, circulation, business and other unorganized departments, and to apply for affiliation in the C. I. O. Rolypoly Reporter Robert Buck of the Washington News has constituted himself the leader of the Guild's loyal opposition ever since the union was founded. His faction, conservative and contrary individuals from the Southwest and Midwest who resent the "New York domination," approved joining C. I. O. but opposed broadening the union's membership base...