Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Richard T. Gill '48 and Albet J. Marks, Jr. '47 have been awarded the two annual Coolidge Debating Parises, Dean Buck announced last night, as the Debate Council finished the season with a defeat by Yale Saturday evening in the Lowell House Junior Common Room...
...newest thing in newspapers is a Buck Rogerish fantasy come true. It is a four-page, pictureless, adless New York Times - containing much of the News That's Fit to Print, distilled from the Times' s regular 32 to 40 pages. It crosses the country by wirephoto, at the speed of 20 minutes a half page, and delegates to the San Francisco conference read it at breakfast...
...when the late George D. Birkhoff '04, Perkins Professor of Mathematics, had been appointed exchange professor to France, Professor Ferguson succeeded to Professor Birkhoff's position as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; and it is said that Professor Ferguson groomed as his successor Paul H. Buck, present dean...
...southern Okinawa the fighting was grim. By week's end the troops had gained from 800 to 1,400 yards, but had established no driving momentum. One village was won and lost again. "Buck" Buckner stuck to his formula-root them out "with blowtorch and corkscrew...
...Rich Man's Burden. The Sun is obviously Field's favorite. Some of the price he has paid to buck Colonel Robert ("Bertie") McCormick's Tribune (with no comics to match Bertie's fine ones, and no A.P. franchise) he tells for the first time. Arguing his (and the Government's) antimonopoly case against the A.P., Field reveals that the United Press charged him a whopping $110,000 a year for its wires. Out-of-town news bureaus and special correspondents cost him another $425,000 annually. A.P. service would cost only about...