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Word: bucked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...industrial stage last week pranced a brand-new performer-handsome, broad-shouldered, 26-year-old Stanley Arnold Odium, son of famed investment trust magnate Floyd B. Odium, and a young buck out to show the world and his father that he could do a job. His first act was a juggling number called Great American Industries Inc., which already makes industrial rubber products, fire engines and tank rescue trucks, is adding telephones and electrical equipment. However much of a hodgepodge, Stanley's venture is spreading like a grass fire and making big money in the process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Strange Merger | 1/25/1943 | See Source »

...over the man's head, like the leaf of an artichoke; there a charred head, hairless but still equipped with blackened eyeballs; pink, blue, yellow entrails drooping; a man with a red bullet hole through his eye; a dead Jap private, wearing dark, tortoise-shell glasses, his buck teeth bared in a humorless grin, lying on his back with his chest a mess of ground meat. There is no horror to these things. The first one you see is the only shock. The rest are simple repetition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Solomons: First Seven Weeks | 1/25/1943 | See Source »

Although denying rumors of House closures, Dean Buck stated that some type of adjustment will naturally have to be made when the Army and Navy training programs go into effect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YARDLINGS TO ENTER HOUSES | 1/22/1943 | See Source »

...housemaid to clean your floor, but she won't help you out any more." This is the tune that the Military Science Department called for its present class of about 100 advanced course cadets in a release last night which revealed a War Department order that will make buck privates of the present cadet officers upon the initiation of the Army Specialized Training Program, presumably in February...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Advanced Mil Sci Men See Active Duty Here | 1/7/1943 | See Source »

...Fivian, Sec. 4 Harvard 5 Government 13 Mallinckrodt MB 9 Greek B Emerson 211 History 42 Mallinckrodt MB 9 History 75a Harvard 6 Japanese 7 Harvard 6 Latin 12 Emerson 211 Mathematics AII (see footnote*) Professor Coolidge, Sec. 1 Memorial Hall Professor Whitney, Sec. 2 Memorial Hall Mr. Buck, Sec. 3 Memorial Hall Mr. Arens, Sec. 4 Memorial Hall Mathematics Ab Memorial Hall Mathematics 4 Mallinckrodt MB 23 Mineralogy 2 Geol. Mus. 12 Music C New Lect. Hall Philosophy 8 Emerson A Physics D Emerson A Physics 26a (Eng'g. 236a) Mallinckrodt MB 9 Psychology 30 Emerson D Semitic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIDYEAR EXAM SCHEDULE | 1/6/1943 | See Source »

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