Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Following the announcement of the Army and Navy pre-induction exam for college students and secondary school seniors on April 2, Dean Buck has advised all potential Freshmen to take the examination in a letter to headmasters of schools sending students here...
...Army examination, which will be given at the same time and place as the Navy College Training Program examinations, is open to a wider range of applicants, according to Dean Buck's letter. In the case of the Army, no physical qualifications are necessary...
...Dean Buck's letter emphasized the possible importance of the examinations to the individual student, and advised anyone planning to enter the College in July, if eligible for the examinations, to take either the Army or Navy exam...
Book-of-the-Month is the biggest jackpot an author and his publisher can hit (an average of $75,000 to split between them, plus larger sales in bookstores). Book-of-the-Month Club authors include Pearl Buck, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Sinclair Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, Willa Gather...
...only way to make economic sense out of the U.S. telegraph industry was to turn it into a monopoly. Yet during all those years Western Union and Postal Telegraph have continued wasteful (and, for Postal, downright suicidal) competition with each other. At the same time they have had to buck increasing competition from the telephone, the teletype and air mail...