Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Galbraith, lecturer in Economics and Director of Agricultural and Marketing Research at Harvard during the past year, has been named professor of Economics. Provost Buck announced last night...
...gift of $50,000 to the Harvard Foundation for Advanced Study and Research from the Mallinkrodt Chemical Works of St. Louis was announced yesterday by Provost Buck...
...accepting the gift, Provost Buck indicated a belief that "Management now realizes it can best serve the cause of private education as a free enterprise, if it provides free funds without attaching limiting restrictions...
Before the war, there was a vigorous Student Council committee known as the Committee on Consumer's Aid and Unfair Practices. In essence, the committee served as a Better Business Bureau for Harvard Square, protecting students against unscrupulous merchants and fly-by-night outfits out to make a quick buck at student expense...
Ernie Byfield, Chicago hotelman and nightclub impresario (the Pump Room, the College Inn), reached 60, took a dim view of the bistro business: "Nightclubs are like gold mines. For every ten bucks you put in, one buck is extracted . . . Old nightclubs and old streetwalkers are the same. The older they get, the less money they take...