Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While Dean Buck has said that the Report of the General Education Committee, which he headed, must "stand or fall as a unit," the proposals for changing Harvard College's curriculum can be boiled down to the following essence...
...therefore drafted by Washington to rescue an American scientist (Marc Cramer) from a Jap prison camp. The captive scientist appears to be the only man who knows the whole formula for completing the atom bomb. The Major forthwith undergoes some heavy-handed plastic surgery to give him buck teeth, slant eyes and a puffy face which make him look less like a Jap than like a man with a chronic hangover. In the tick of a time fuse he is being smuggled into Japan by the Korean underground as Sergeant Tomo Takashima, a returning war hero. He gets...
...clock. Reception for new men, Smith Halls Common room. Speakers: Richard M. Gummere, Chairman of Committee on Admissions, Wilbur J. Bender '27, Counsellor for Veteans, Dean Buck Othes...
Eichelberger, who talks of military campaigns in football terms, does not believe in generals who buck the middle of the opponent's line; instead, he favors the end run, the cleverly concealed multiple pass, even on occasion a well-executed shoe string play. He minimizes his achievements in battle but brags unashamedly about what he did to raise the standard of the Military Academy's football team...
...Bouncy, buck-toothed little Dong Kingman, a California-born Chinese, has meandered over much of the U.S., recording in bright, breezy brush strokes the look of the land. In the course of his visual reporting he has whipped out about 50 pictures a year, and sold most of them at an average of $250 apiece...