Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week's National Union of Mine Workers' conference at Rothesay, in Scotland, Horner gave a demonstration of his tactics and his might. On the platform he sat between grim, green-eyed Manny Shinwell and buck-toothed Lord Hyndley, chairman of the National Coal Board. Horner got from both of them exactly what he wanted. He asked for the closed shop, shorter hours, more social security...
Indians hired to give frontier flavor to the Calgary Stampede (TIME, July 21) are paid on a graduated scale for all services rendered: $5 to a chief, $3 to a sub-chief, $1 to every brave, squaw and papoose for each parade; $5 for the best-dressed buck and squaw; $2 to $7 for each Indian race. They want more. Last week, with the help of Paleface John Laurie, Calgary schoolteacher, they presented their demands...
During the registration week, new and returning students will hear Thomas S. Lamont '21, Overseer, as well as Provost Buck and Dean Bender at a reception on Friday, September...
...national rent-control law, he had favored a "voluntary" 15% provision for the rest of the country. As a tenant of the Westchester Apartments, he and several other Senators were fighting a 17½% rent hike proposed by their landlord. The country's tenants would be watching Buck...
...passed a law nationalizing hunting in the province of Carinthia. Large estates were to be subdivided into small parcels for the season, and one huntsman assigned to each by the authorities. Everyone, said the Socialists, deserved a chance in these hard times to shoot himself a bustard or a buck...