Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last spring, Provost Buck, in announcing a rise in tuition, said that College enrollment would dip to 5100 this fall and 4700 in the spring term. With Selective Service in the offing, a large Class of 1952 was admitted. But when immediate drafting did not occur, the College was faced with a freshman class--and a total enrollment-far larger than estimated...
...Clearly Ahead." Roper would continue to keep an eye on the campaign, nonetheless. For one thing, the Democrats still had congressional and gubernatorial candidates who might be able to buck the Republican groundswell. Because of many close Senate races, there was even an outside chance of a Democratic Senate next year...
Harry Truman, who had preferred Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, made no further effort to buck the convention's wishes. Called by National Chairman Howard McGrath, Truman said: "I love him like a brother... If the convention wants Alben, of course he is acceptable...
Matthew Fox has a solid reputation as an expert kibitzer and operator, with an inordinately sharp eye for a fast buck. A movie man by trade, he has backed such side bets as Bub-0-Loon, three-dimensional pictures, the "everlasting match" (TIME, Oct. 13). Last winter he quit his $150,00b-a-year job as executive vice president of Universal-International Pictures to make side bets his life work. One of them turned out to be a new main chance: the Indonesian Republican government heeded $80,000 fast, and Matty Fox thought he could arrange it. He did. Then...
...After weeks of debate on a trusteeship for Palestine, U.N.'s General Assembly lamely passed the buck to the Middle East...