Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reasons for this provision," Paul H. Buck, Dean of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences stated in commenting upon the plan, "are twofold--the reduction of the Harvard staff and student body by reason of calls to war service, and the increasing demands on the time of the teaching staff for instruction under Army and Navy training programs, and for war research activities...
Hard College Years. The boys will find college no romp. They will be uniformed, on active duty (as apprentice seamen, buck privates), carry heavy class schedules. But military activities will be subordinated to academic training. Some opportunity will be given for athletics...
...Take some Jap's buck teeth out right by the roots...
...profitable contract with King Features Syndicate, Inc.; his drawings appear in some 50 U.S. and Canadian papers, and actually run frequently in the great Manchester Guardian, which prints the cartoon masterworks of Britain's famed political artist, David Low. As a soldier, Dave Breger started out a buck private in 1941, by last week had become a second lieutenant...
...Buck up, laddies. Life to still worth while. The class book will go to press in a week or so with YOUR snapshots in it and one hundred fifty (Count 'om! One hundred fifty!) new WAVES will overflow into Cambridge before you've had a chance to forget your April Foel's Day Jokes...