Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cool headed analysis last week of Boston's politics its prejudices and its traditions--upon a city whose newspapers were seething with tales of bare-faced bribery and graft. When James S. Coffee stood up before a license hearing in the Council and affirmed, "Sure I'll take a buck," the probe was on. Before it was over, citizens knew that Coffee would take three thousand bucks and that he was not alone. Peculiar to Boston, Lyons points out in Vanguard Press' anthology, "Our Fair City," is the fact that nothing will be done about...
After six months of what he termed "successful experience" with small classes, Provost Buck announced plans yesterday for the rapid expansion of the General Education Program to more than twice its present size, and outlined eight new courses to be given next, year--all but one of them designed primarily for Juniors and Seniors. He also disclosed that elementary courses in the Humanities will be open next year to any Freshman or Sophomore who wishes to enter them...
...addition to the eight full coursers already listed in the catalogue under General Education, three full and five half courses will be added to the 1947-48 curriculum. General Education classes will continue to be optional next year, Buck said. "but ultimately it is planned to make elementary courses in General Education required." Advanced courses will always be elective, he added...
...Buck laid down the current party line...
When airplanes follow a great-circle course, they often buck head winds all the way. A longer course to the left or right may give them helpful tail winds. How to find such winds has been the problem. The pilot cannot depend, like a sailing-ship captain, on the average wind directions over long periods of time. He crosses too quickly for that. A strong head wind lasting only a few hours may upset his schedule as much as if it kept blowing for weeks...