Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Professor Burns of Dartmouth raved that Harvard historians never travel beyond the Cape and are interested in nothing west of the Hudson, he must have forgotten Paul Buck. This stocky, bespectacled historian came to Harvard in 1923 and has since acquired a reputation of knowing "more about the South than any man in the Country," as one Alabaman newspaper editor...
Since his expanded Ph.D. thesis appeared in book form as "The Road to Reunion" and won him the 1938 Pulitzer Prize in history, Professor Buck has sat securely on the top of the American history heap. And although he does spend his summers on the Cape and has done the major part of his studying in Cambridge, he could never be called a New Englander. Born in Columbus, Ohio and attending Ohio State in his home town, Buck, after deciding not to be a biologist, has traveled periodically through the South and spent a year in Europe on a Sheldon...
Last month Buck officially assumed his duties as wartime Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, sixteen years after he began as an Instructor in History under Professor Arthur Schlesinger, also a graduate of Ohio State...
...Buck himself would rather be known as a historian of America than of the South. The problems of the South, he explains, are only intensifications of the nation's problems. In this war he sees the country developing techniques to solve its domestic problems. "The South," he reminds his students with a little jerk of his hands, "has a lot of people who need to be helped." The historian, in his case at least, has emerged, from his traditional book-lined study into the light...
...thousand fresh fighter planes, in immediate operation from Rangoon to Darwin, would give the Allies a better than even chance to buck Japan's thinned and scattered Air Force, to save a minimum number of vital airdromes, to hold the skies until U.S. bombers arrived in effective numbers. Even 500 fighters-approximately one group each at five centers-might do the trick, if they arrived immediately and were quickly followed by more...