Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Merchant sailors are automatically eligible for deferment from the draft, and can be sure of earning much more pay per month, once they have gone to sea, than buck privates. During the four month preliminary training period they will receive $50 a month, and once on a merchant ship basic pay, plus overtime, war bonuses, and harbor bonuses, adds up to well over one hundred dollars...
SIREN IN THE NIGHT-Leslie Ford- Scribner ($2). Colonel Primrose, Sergeant Buck and the fluttery Mrs. Grace Latham are here concerned with a cyaniding job in San Francisco-a well-groomed, romantic, chilling tale in the best Ford style...
Following up Dean Hanford's warning of last Monday with definitive action, Dean Buck announced yesterday that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has voted that regular attendance be required and that attendance be taken in all courses...
Wendell Willkie and Pearl Buck are among the awakened American citizens who have been warning the American people that they cannot expect real cooperation from Asiatic groups until we let them know what an Allied victory will mean, Mrs. Schumpeter said...
...complicated task of explaining to the new men about the relation of the armed forces to the College fell to Colonel Philip Fox, Commanding Officer of the Army Signal Corps at the Electronic School. Dean Paul H. Buck then presented the alternative to the Freshmen of taking either regular liberal courses or those pertinent to the war effort...