Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Luck was needed, for the soap opera is a rigid medium, a hard game to buck. Scripter Michael was lucky in her husband, a radio producer who could keep casting and direction in the family, and lucky in the fact that P. & G., with more than a dozen other soap operas running, could afford to experiment with one. She had acquired deftness with dialogue and sound in five years' radio apprenticeship. But the best thing she had was a determination to create living and thoughtful people...
...Announcement of the Courses of Instruction Under the Faculty of Arts and Sciences." Neither the Government nor the University has made this really clear to Harvard's potential draftees. Concentrators in chemistry, physics, or engineering are not they only non-R.O.T.C. men who can hope to escape a buck private ship on the basis of their undergraduate studies. The army needs everything from psychometrists to meteorologists, and a well chosen course or two may open the door to further army training, if not directly to a commission or specialized...
Married. Dr. John Lossing Buck, University of Nanking professor, ex-husband of Pulitzer Prize Novelist Pearl Buck; and Chang Lo-mei, his secretary; in Chungking...
Clay-tile Tycoon Walter S. Dickey, who bought the Journal in 1921, bashed in his fortune trying to buck the Star. Utility-man Henry L. Doherty, who bought 50% control in 1931, sank about $300,000 a year in the Journal (plus $250,000 a year in utility advertising). His only profit: whatever satisfaction came from his hysterical series of libel and conspiracy suits totaling $54,000,000 against the Star for its hard-hitting campaign for lower gas rates (they were thrown...
...belong to the union." So that, if the matter had taken its natural course and been brought up before the Mediation Board, the recommendation probably would have been pro-union, as it was in the almost similar Kearny Shipyard case. But the Mediation Board preferred to pass the buck, because, it claimed, any stand would influence present negotiations between the CIO and "Little Steel" on the same issue. Meanwhile, the strike date was approaching, Mr. Roosevelt sent three letters to Lewis requesting that he hold off until a settlement could be reached, John L. turned a deaf...