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Word: bucked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...judges for the debate will include Dean Buck, Rafael Domos, associate professor of Philosophy, and David M. Little '13, Secretary to the University and Master of Adams House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEBATERS FACE PRINCETON AND YALE ON PROBLEM OF POST-WAR FEDERATION | 5/19/1944 | See Source »

...started his Bolivian career, Don Mauricio began to dabble in politics. His object, shared with the rest of the tin trinity: to keep a "sympathetic" government, which would hold miners' wages and standards of living to the lowest possible level. German Busch, the last President who tried to buck Hochschild & friends, slapped him in jail, would have shot him except for powerful intervention reportedly by the U.S. and Argentina. (Hochschild has a convenient Argentine citizenship.) Soon afterward, Busch died (official explanation: suicide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Don Mauricio | 5/15/1944 | See Source »

...this forthrightness dispel the ambiguities in U.S. Secretary Cordell Hull's recent statement that Washington was disposed to let the Algiers Committee exercise leadership in France? Things actually were not that simple. Buck-passing Washington has passed the buck on the question of whom to deal with and not to deal with during and immediately after the invasion-that was still, said Washington, strictly General Dwight D. Eisenhower's business. Last week that overburdened officer had to turn from pre-invasion military chores, confer on French politics with General Joseph Pierre Koenig, doughty hero of Bir Hacheim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Dear Rusia | 5/15/1944 | See Source »

Restricting Harvard's civilian student body to two Houses, Dean Buck announced last night that Dunster House will close beginning with the summer term. Lowered enrollment figures forced the action which will call for the removal of over 200 men from the House. Transfer blanks will be issued at Dunster Wednesday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DUNSTER HOUSE WILL CLOSE AT START OF SUMMER TERM | 5/12/1944 | See Source »

Cowboys, Indians, soldiers and lots of noisy gunpowder--a throw-back to the days when Tom Mix, Ken Maynard and Buck Jones used to hold the Saturday matinee spellbound. Remember the thrill when troops of soldiers thundered across the screen leaving their loved ones and a trail of dust behind them. And the Indians--how vicious they looked in their war paint, and how quiet they were in sneaking up on an encampment of sleeping men. But what a grand lot of noise there was when battle took place! Those were the days...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 4/25/1944 | See Source »

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