Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...school debate over whether the Marines should be withdrawn from Nicaragua-recreate the hoteha and ballyhoo of the years just preceding the depression. Especially typical is the portrayal of the high-school football hero, whose raccoon coat, honor-badge of the period, appears as standard equipment whenever the young buck comes in the screen, be it to hootchi-koo, crank up his roadster, or neck on a hot June night...
...ruling from Provost Buck last week made the relaxation possible, Watson disclosed, while admitting that a very few exceptions to the commuting rule had been made since the beginning of the term, mostly on request of the Hygiene Department...
Besides the above spokesmen of jazz as it will be played in 1956, Mr. Granz is bringing three men who from past performances should satisfy all but the most unreconstructed antiquarians. Green-eyed Buck Clayton has proved he can combine melody with modernism by his work on the Basic records: Royal Garden, Bugle, and Sugar Blues made in 1944. His rival among the more comprehensible instrumentalists will be Rex Stewart, Ellington's former solo cornetist who achieves remarkable tonal effect with the valves of his horn pushed down just half-way. The other steadying influence will be the corpse...
Plans now in the tentative stage are projecting a dormitory to provide living quarters for possibly 1000 students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Law School, according to Provost Buck, who declared yesterday that this problem of the graduate had been receiving considerable thought for some time...
...Provost Buck also cited the long background of need in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Law School for proper housing accomodations. At present a small number of men in the two schools are living in Conant, Perkins, and Walter Hastings Halls, but the majority of the graduates have been forced to find quarters in and around crowded Cambridge and, until the Vanserg cafeteria opened early this term, have had no common place to eat, the Provost added...