Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...daring dean of modern architects announced last week that he had completed plans, and secured backing (a million dollars), for the long-contemplated Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Non-Objective Painting.* It sounded like a jumping-off-place for Buck Rogers, the man from the 25th Century. "It will outdo in bizarre appearance any other building in the world," was the verdict of one appraising eye. Fiery old (76) Frank Lloyd Wright, the man who designed it, proudly says that it will be the first building ever conceived in the form of a true logarithmic spiral (descending spiral, widest...
...wife Zaleznick. "The cob" (quotation borrowed) is the fact that our company was bested in the race for 60 dollar per month rental allowance by such fifth company was bested in the race for 60 dollar per month rental allowance by such fifth company stalwarts as "Buck" Ayers, B.A. (?) Johnson, "Rolie Polie" Foley, Regt, Comdr, Grenaker, and numerous other eupidites...
When Allied officers described some of the Buck Rogersish secret weapons discovered in Germany (TIME, July 9), they were greeted with skeptical snorts. Last week they offered as corroborative evidence a picture of one of the most fantastic: a gun that shoots around corners (see cut). Designed so that a soldier can keep out of sight while firing, the gun has a curved barrel and a special sight for aiming from around a corner. After emerging, the bullet flies fairly straight, Allied experts said, but not very accurately...
Asked whether the problem might not affect the individual's choice of courses while in college, Teele pointed significantly to an advance copy of "General Education in a Free Society," the report of Dean Buck's University Committee on the Objectives of a General Education in a Free Society, which is scheduled for public release on August...
...scene was Allied press headquarters in Paris on a rainy summer day. Facing the half-dozing correspondents, Lieut. Colonel John A. Keck, onetime Pittsburgh engineer and now chief of Allied technical intelligence on German weapons, began quietly: "This will make Buck Rogers seem as if he lived in the Gay '90s." He proceeded to unfold the improbable story of what German scientists were up to when V-E day interrupted them...