Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...queer kind of man hunt. The posse was made up of eminent historians, led by the Archivist of the U.S., Solon J. Buck. The man they were after was an obscure carpenter from Topeka, but he was regarded by some of them as the greatest historical forger in the U.S. To track him down, they employed lapidaries, metallurgists, and ink and paper experts...
...think the responsibility of keeping the home full of love and comfort," said Novelist Hans Habe generously to a woman interviewer, "is at least as great as making a buck." The author of A Thousand Shall Fall did not mean, he hastened to add, that women should "just stay in the kitchen," but: "After all, somebody has to bring home the bacon and somebody has to cook it. But it is not a natural man's nature to bake the bacon...
...come you send letters from New York when you're in Cambridge?" I ask him, and he tells me that New York is a big city, with a lot of people who will do anything for a buck...
...Provost Buck, chairman; Edward Reynolds, administrative vice president of the University; Gordon M. Fair, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering; James S. Simmons, Dean of the School of Public Health; Howard H. Aiken, professor of Applied Mathematics and Director of the Computation Laboratory...
...peacetime uses for the University's mechanical calculator. Still under contract to the U.S. Navy, the "mechanical brain" which proved its applicability to the problems of death throughout the war is now to be turned to the uses of life. The faculty committee, named yesterday and headed by Provost Buck, is charged with deciding whether the peacetime occupation of the device will be in the social or natural sciences. Represented in the group are the fields of astrophysics and economics, engineering and social relations, as well as mathematician and laboratory director Howard H. Aiken...