Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That man did not appear. Instead came Warden William Hendry with the words: "Well, boys, it's all off. ... Buck up. Be men and start eating...
...bills. It is the one-dollar bill that has been the great staple of U. S. currency. Even the most modestly salaried individual can "flash a roll" of ones. Homely, democratic, sanctified by custom, the one-dollar bill has been taken to the U. S. bosom, lovingly christened "bean," "buck," "berry," "simoleon," "iron man," "smacker," "plunk," "rock," "kelp" (always in the plural which employs no "s"; e. g. "14 kelp."). Meanwhile the Treasury Department has found itself faced with a printing bill of millions of dollars yearly. It was costing money to make money...
...need any sentimentalizing. From the late years of the last century they have had much too much of that. And few of the intelligent ones, the Bypatias of Spoon River and Lynn and Beacon Bill, would care for the sugared accents of the dying bowman. Arthur is passing--the buck...
...Nebraska, 260; Oregon, 303; Wisconsin, 144 ; Indiana, 700 ; Michigan, 100.†40 days at present; 24 days in the future, by a ruling passed during the present sitting. **There are three main methods by which human beings may be prevented from propagating the species. In the case of Miss Buck, a surgeon will sever the Fallopian tubes, which function as passages from ovaries to womb. This surgical operation is known as salpingotomy. Surgical sterilization of men consists of cutting the spermatic cord, causing atrophy of the testicles. The third method, applicable to both men and women, is X-ray sterilization...
...north as this, is calling from the birches behind the tents. The thermometer registers 43, and we crawl into our sleeping bags and listen for a few happy minutes to the roar of the river--and the next thing I knew, a golden-coated three-year-old buck is pawing and snorting just outside the tent, in the broad morning sunshine. We have come home...