Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Provost Buck yesterday announced the formation of a special Faculty Committee to study ways to beat an impending surplus of Ph.D.s...
...Honest Buck Lane freely admits to his readers when a careless deputy gets played for a sucker: "When he returned to his car, his pistol a 44-40 single action, his tear gas billy and 4 boxes of shells . . . was flat gone, it's getting rough when thieves rob the law." But usually, in Lane's letters, the forces of decency triumph. The other day, a fly-by-night peddler who was "after the cotton money" invaded Wharton County: "He said, well I'll buy a license and I said we don't sell licenses...
This week, on the site picked by blustery "Buck" Duke, the university which bears his name was inaugurating its new 48-year-old President Arthur Hollis Edens (Duke's third), and accepting congratulations on a hectic and happy first quarter-century...
...Buck Duke; who died in 1925, had thought of just about everything. Counting subsequent Duke endowment funds (and previous family gifts to Trinity), the Duke benefactions amounted, in time, to more than $50 million. The only thing that money couldn't buy overnight was a solid academic reputation...
Robert Lowry's first book, Casualty, published in 1946, was a story of stagnation in a U.S. Army camp in Italy, of sullen enlisted men, buck-passing officers, drunkenness, boredom, brief and fatal outbreaks of violence. His second, Find Me in Fire (1948), told of the return of a crippled soldier to his home town after the war, and of his inability to find a place for himself in it again. The Wolf That Fed Us, published earlier this year, was a collection of eight war stories, which had the spare narrative, the graphic power and something...