Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jewish Children's home, now lives with foster parents. At Shorewood High School, he plays football, boxes, is an orator of parts. But in the timbre of his voice there was more than rhetoric: "We have everything here . . . super highways, aspirin, fine hospitals, penicillin, atomic energy, bubble gum, Buck Rogers ... All these, plus the necessities of life. But the greatest of all is the temple of liberty...
Five hundred eleven Harvard undergraduates, of whom 384 are currently House residents, filed applications at the recent registration, which Provost Buck and Vice-President Reynolds felt were enough to make House residence feasible. Details of the plan are under consideration at present by Associate Dean Watson and the seven House masters...
...left above), Benjamin F. Wright, Chairman of the Faculty Committee on General Education (extreme left), and John H. Finlay, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature (extreme right). The meeting was called to order by Daniel A. Newhall '06, former head of the Philadelphia Harvard Club (center), and chaired by Provost Buck (second right...
...Provost Buck announced three more faculty promotions yesterday as the annual spring flood of new appointments continued to roll...
...Miss Buck relies for throb-appeal on a blend of the Abie's Irish Rose and Cinderella themes. Peony is written in a soggy prose and stilted pidgin that suggest a kind of mimicry of Miss Buck's previous work. Her heroine, pretty Chinese bondmaid Peony, is in the service of a wealthy Jewish family, the Ezras. As such she tends flowers, serves tea, and prepares the bed of her "young master," David Ezra. It will surprise no reader to learn that behind Peony's ornamental exterior beats the passionate heart of a woman wildly in love...