Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never see a deer get burned in a forest fire," commented Frank (Bring 'Em Back Alive) Buck, who thinks the horse is pretty dumb anyhow. He rates the intellectuals of animaldom as 1) elephants, 2) anthropoid apes, 3) dogs...
Voted a member of the Social Arts group was Theodore H. Brown, professor of Business Statistics. Stanley S. Stevens, associate professor of Psychology, Paul H. Buck, Provost, and John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature, were elected to the Humanities area...
...procedure ridiculous, for a fact-finding body is valueless unless the parties being investigated agree at the start to accept the philosophy of the committee and realize that any argument with its decisions can come only on the basis of neglect or misuse of the facts. Neither the cynical buck-passing of Prime Minister Attlee nor the hysterical Arabian harangues have dealt with the facts presented in the investigation; the complaints of Zionists and President Truman's spineless praise have been just as blissfully uncognizant of the realities of the present situation...
Projected to increase Stillman's present 65-bed capacity by at least 50 beds, plans for a Quonset hut installation connecting with the main building were still in the hands of Provost Buck yesterday but should be carried out by September, according to Dr. Bock...
...United States will not go to war with Russia, will roundly defeat Harry Truman in '48, and Harvard would definitely be improved by admission of Provost Buck's "healthy, extrovert kind of American youth"--according to the sentiments voiced by the members of Kirkland House in their annual poll conducted yesterday...