Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Treasurer William H. Claflin Jr., a Boston investment banker, who worries about the university's $205 million investments; 2) Edward ("Ted") Reynolds, wartime chief of the Army's medical supply service, whose responsibilities are housekeeping functions (food, real estate, etc.); 3) Historian Paul Herman Buck, Dean of the 597-strong) Arts & Sciences faculty and Provost of the University. Roosterlike little Paul Buck, ambitious and hardworking, is No. 2 man in the academic setup...
...years, Horace ("Doc") Schwerin has found it good business to stick his nose in other people's business. As a buck private, he sounded off about Army life...
Ever since Pearl Buck's novel The Good Earth made peasant life in China familiar to thousands of Americans, Publishers John Day (whose president, Richard J. Walsh, is Novelist Buck's husband) have been praying for a novel that would do as much for the peasants of India. They believe that The Land and the Well is the answer to their prayer...
Such developments had been long predicted, but usually by freewheeling prophets or Buck Rogers artists who ignored an obvious deficiency: power supply. No known fuel contained enough chemical energy to lift a useful payload above the atmosphere. But new knowledge of the possibilities of atomic power (details secret) has changed all that...
Pauline marched home to California, beaten and burned up-at herself. She sought out Eleanor Tennant, an old tennis teacher, who coached Champions Bobby Riggs and Alice Marble, once charged the movies' Marion Davies $1,000 a month for lessons. Teacher Tennant decided to buck Pauline up first. Says Eleanor: "When a gal has egg on her face, the first thing to do is let her know she is the world's greatest player...