Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pacific Coast baseball men are fed up with playing Santa Claus to the major leagues. They do not like losing their Buck Newsomes, Joe Di Maggios and Ted Williamses. They think postwar air travel may well lure some big-league club to pick up a Los Angeles franchise (the St. Louis Browns nibbled at it two years ago). Above all, they await the day when they can support a third big league of their...
Fifty convalescent war veterans from Fort Devens will arrive at 9:30 o'clock this morning for an all-day tour of the University. The soldiers, who have seen action in all theatres of war, will be welcomed on their arrival by Dean Buck in the Faculty Room of University Hall...
This official robomb short includes some astutely quiet shots: of placid wheat, a blowing summer tree in the wasted city, children picking their way, with touching shyness, among freshly ruined homes. It also has some intensely exciting shots of the bombs in flight, fantastic as Buck Rogers and intimately sinister as a noise in the wall, a weirdly terrible expression and symbol of the enemy. And there is one tremendous moment when, in one of the most sensational scenes of the war, a V-1 is caught on the wing by a British plane, roars the screen full...
Introduced by Dean Buck, New England's Poet Laureate spoke in an easy, friendly manner. He read, among others, "Mending Wall," "Birches," "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," and Death of the Hired Man." At the end he was called back by the applause of the group, and read three more works, concluding with "Reluctance at Parting...
Major General Archer Lerch, USA, Provost General of the United States and National Director of the Civil Affairs Training School, will inspect the local units of that organization on Tuesday. Arriving in the morning from Washington, he will be greeted by Dean Buck and President Conant...