Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Best thing about this job is that at last we have a chance to sit down and argue," Harry remarged. "And the professors are darn co-operative and willing to discuss anything." Most of the Fellows take courses for the men rather than the course. Buck Hopper, Schlesinger, Merk and Jones drew top honors...
...well in the big league. But they had better come along if Cornell is to have any sort of a team, because that's where all our depth is. As a matter of fact, four of these Yearlings started against Syracuse--"Jolting" Joe Martin, who is as sweet a buck back as you could want; Rus Geib, a humdinger of a guard for just a kid; Red McDonald, a mighty fine little tailback; and Frank Rochow, subbing for the injured Van Order at tackle...
...first Raja was succeeded by his nephew, Sir Charles Johnson Brooke, a lusting, jungle-loving buck. Sir Charles used to think dinner an unnecessary and expensive meal, but he relented on his wedding night and bought his bride bread, butter and tea. Sir Charles in due course died (although his ghost still haunts the palace, says his daughter-in-law), to be succeeded by his son, the present Raja...
First social affair of the year will be a record dance in the Common Room the night of the Cornell game. House members admitted free with or without dates; others with dates a buck a couple...
Kansas City police hunted L. C. Barrow, one of the Southwest's notorious Barrow brothers (Clyde and Buck were killed by cops). Charge: stealing a dozen cans of caviar. . .Charles Ray, 50, corn-fed juvenile of the silent films, went broke in Hollywood. . .The Safe Deposit and Trust Co. of Baltimore, guardians of eight-year-old Christopher Smith Reynolds, son of Torchsinger Libby Holman and the late, tobacco-wealthy Zachary Smith Reynolds, declared it cost them $6,944.44 a month to maintain the boy. . . Harry K. Thaw, 70, wealthy playboy slayer of Architect Stanford White in 1906, turned...