Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mossman draws the line at rewriting Beethoven and Bach. Says he: "Beethoven can be adapted, but I don't like to - it's so perfect." With the air of a man piously renouncing a chance for a fast buck he adds: "I'd never touch Bach. There are a couple of themes in the St. Matthew Passion and the Magnificat -but I wouldn't touch them...
...might seem temerarious for an individual to buck the world's greatest oil companies, but not when the individual was Gulbenkian; he was an old hand at it. For more than a quarter of a century, his legendary figure has flitted through Middle Eastern oil deals. Bald, beak-nosed and now 79, Gulbenkian is such a well-known operator that oilmen refer to him simply as "G." Despite two wars and slippery international oil politics, G has managed to hang on to his 5% interest in Iraq Petroleum Co., Ltd., which has brought him a fortune variously estimated...
...part of the Faculty receiving line, Provost Buck and Earnest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology, will go on the speakers' platform in the Kirkland House Common Room tonight at 7:30 o'clock. The reception, for all new and returning students, will be conducted by Delmar Leighton '18, Dean of Freshmen...
...degree distinctions and Classics requirement abolished with Deans Hanford and Buck sponsoring Council report of student opinion...
...Buck Hunt. Most of Billy's conscious running has always been in the direction of money. Says he: "I spent the first 40 years of my life in the buck hunt. There was nothing in the world but Billy Rose and he was going to get his. It's a tough street, I told myself, and you'd better learn how to count." With Billy, that has often meant counting other people...