Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Buck, 21, feeble-minded state asylum inmate, with a feeble-minded mother and a feeble-minded illegitimate child, protested sterilization proceedings against her. Counsel argued that sterilization was never justifiable, that Miss Buck was being discriminated against since many a feeble-minded woman not under state care was continuing to propagate the species without molestation. With only Justice Pierce Butler dissenting, the Supreme Court ruled that the principle sustaining compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes. It affirmed the state's right to call upon defectives for "sacrifices, often not felt to be such...
...which consisted only in a revolt against Spain. He committed suicide, sooner than be taken Spain's prisoner. The Cespedes cross is Cuba's highest honor, bestowed only on heads of governments and never before on a U. S. president. *Small antelope. Its Dutch name means "diving buck"-from its facility at plunging through thickets, hedges...
Expressing the same sentiments as those in his more recent article, Mr. Eaton said: "Nothing in recent years has hurt me more than to see official Harvard repudiate the amateur theatrical leadership it had so bravely assumed, and nothing would buck up my pride more than to see the Harvard Dramatic Club so supported by undergraduate enthusiasm that it could carry on the good work whatever the attitude of the authorities. The theatre of tomorrow belongs to the youth of today. The Harvard Dramatic Club is youth, I hope confident, I hope daring, I hope full of the will...
Eugene Elsenman '27, playing for the class of 1929, and W. J. Buck '23 poled homers to swell their team's totals, Buck getting his clout with two men on base. The Juniors scored a triple play on the losers in the fourth when E. L. Markella '29 fled out to center field. E. R. Todd '29 was nipped off at home plate, while Richard Warren '29 was caught off first base...
Juniors Beals, Russell, Slocum, p.; Baldwin, 2b.; Burrows, c.; Wallace, 1b.; Atherton, l.f.; Long, 3b.; Bartlett, s.s.; Buck, c.f.; Gelinas...