Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President Roosevelt to a board of three in charge of the rubber situation was the second war position given to President James B. Conant, already working as chairman of the National Defense Research Committee, his position in the University will remain unaffected. Deans John C. Baker and Paul H. Buck will fulfill his duties during his several months' absence in Washington...
...solution of how to keep the ceilings intact, WLB now passed the buck to Congress. Board Chairman William Hammatt Davis said that obviously standards of living must be cut-but the knife should be Congress' taxing power, not WLB's power to negotiate wages...
...recoption remarks, Dean Buck recalled the prominence of Dutch scholars at the time of Harvard's founding, and spoke of the continued cooperation between Dutch men of learning and Harvard...
...present time, Dean Buck said, both The Netherlands and the United States are laboring for a United Nations victory in the cause of civilization. And in the future they will both be aiming for a free world in which each nation can once again "exchange the fruits of its activity, intellectual as well as physical...
Climaxing her tour of Boston before returning to her summer home at Lee the Queen was officially welcomed to the University by Dean Paul H. Buck at a reception in Massachusetts Hall, after which she drove around the Yard before departing. Present at the reception were several deans of graduate schools as well as three members of the Faculty of Dutch descent...