Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army & Navy themselves had settled some disputed points, the President had resolved three of the knottiest: he had ruled in favor of a single defense department, three coequal branches, and a Marine Corps under the Navy (TIME, June 24). The one issue on which the Navy had continued to buck its Commander in Chief was his order that all land-based aviation (including anti-submarine patrol) be put under the proposed new independent Air Force...
Rumors of an extended Christmas vacatin as a result of the local coal shortage were spiked emphatically last night by Paul H. Buck, Provest of the University...
...announcing the Faculty's decision, Provost Buck last night said that he wished to forestall anticipated criticism that "the Harvard Faculty has driven one more nail into the coffin of the ancient languages...
...same time, Cater disclosed that a conference with President Conant and Provost Buck on Saturday had laid the framework for two investigations and reports to be made shortly by his committee...
...initial move for a report on student feeling on the degree distinction and the ancient language requirement came last June when Provost Buck, as chairman of the Faculty Committee on Educational Policy, asked the Council and the CRIMSON to plan a campaign to inform the student body of the issues and to submit a report for consideration at a Faculty meeting "soon after Thanksgiving...