Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...explain the General Education proposals and to parry the barbs of the disappointed Radcliffe girls, Dean Buck, chairman of the General Education Committee, will address a Radcliffe mass meeting tomorrow afternoon at 1 o'clock...
...Game. In Grand Junction, Colo., deer hunters Philip Massey and John Gobbo saw a four-point buck, took aim; frightened, the buck choked on a large acorn, fell dead...
Symington intimated that such a program was necessary because Alcoa was the only company which could or would buy some of the $700,000,000 worth of U.S. owned aluminum plants; everyone else was afraid they could not get bauxite, could not buck Alcoa in the retail market, etc. There had been only two specific offers to date-from Reynolds Metals and Columbia Metals-to lease the plants. But the companies would lease them for five years on one condition: that the Government guarantee the market for aluminum, i.e., buy up and stockpile all aluminum the companies could not sell...
Reviewing the marchers will be Rear Admiral James E. Pine, Superintendent of the Coast Guard Academy, Rear Admiral W. N. Derby, District Coast Guard Officer, Captain C. H. J. Keppler, Commanding Officer of the Harvard Naval Training Schools, and Deans Buck and Hanford for the University...
...Government's problem of strengthening Labor's meager representation (25 peers) in the overwhelmingly Tory (519 out of 803) House of Lords. In theory the Tory peers can hold up all Labor's nonfinancial legislation for two years; in practice, however, they are unlikely to buck Labor's powerful public mandate...