Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Buck Hill Falls, Pa., 100 doctors, lawyers, businessmen, clergymen and engineers sat down to discuss professional education, after three days agreed that it left a lot to be desired. Most frequently voiced objection: the professional schools are turning out technically trained but socially irresponsible graduates ("useless or dangerous to society"). Columbia Law Professor Karl Llewellyn thought that the professional schools should not neglect the bottom 90% for the sake of the top 10%. Said he: "In the average town of 100,000, trying to find a good lawyer is as difficult as trying to find a good dentist...
There are no pari-mutuel windows beneath the stands on Soldiers Field. This is a situation that might well be considered by gentlemen fond of turning an easy buck or two, for the baseball team has so far proved to be about as consistent as a Lincoln Downs two-year...
Last week Provost Buck asked the Council to make recommendations for just such a codification, recommendations which the Council will proceed to draft at its meeting Monday night. Three basic issues must be considered: where the rallies can be held; when they can be held; and who can hold them...
...late honorable Harvey I, a 20-pound Angora buck rabbit that romped the nursery confines for two years, was rushed to the Belmont Animal Hospital last week for an operation on a paw infection. But nothing could be done for the prostrate rabbit...
Croaked one of his hangers-on: "You pulped him, champ-pulped him." The world's middleweight champion scowled back coldly: "Gwan. I licked him with my brains. He didn't think I could box. I showed him. I sure showed him. For a lousy buck, too." A photographer wanted him to kiss the dollar (Rocky's purse for fighting Sonny Home last week in Washington), but the champ's attention wavered. He answered another question: "Yeah, so my timing was off. What...