Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...limits of quick credit are bounded only by the businessman's imagination. Last month Amarillo's First National Bank wheeled out a car credit card to buck the big auto financing agencies. The holder presents the card in the auto showroom to prove that he has the bank's approval for a loan, like a cash buyer can drive out in a new car within minutes...
...proctored at the Annex, even in the days when 'Cliffies took all exams in Longfellow Hall under Harvard regulations. Nevertheless, students in the early forties campaigned for the right to apply the honor system to final exams. When Dean Mildred P. Sherman proposed the idea to University Provost Paul Buck, he told her it would never work at Harvard, but to "go ahead and try it" at Radcliffe. The Annex went ahead, but it was soon apparent that the total freedom advocated by Student Government was a step in the wrong direction...
...Paterson, N.J. silkmaker. In younger, leaner days he had been a lightweight prizefighter and a Hollywood stunt man. Abbott had sold tickets in a theater box office. Their partnership hit the big time with the 1939 Broadway musical Streets of Paris, the big money with the 1941 film Buck Privates. Through 1951, they were almost always among the top ten moneymakers in Hollywood, pulling down as much as half a million a year. Beneath Costello's clowning there was often hidden suffering-he had rheumatic fever, his infant son drowned in a swimming pool-but the farce and slapstick...
...words long. To top things off, at least one tutor is assigning a student to lead the discussions in each session this semester. Each student will theoretically conduct one two hour session. This entals extra work for the tutee thus assigned, and is, on the part of the tutor buck-passing. The tutor is paid to lead the sessions; therefore, he should lead them...
...Buck Rogers Inc. Cook's brainpower has taken it into dozens of fields. The company devised the recovery system for the Army's Jupiter missile nose cone (TIME, June 9), has presented the Defense Department with a plan for a manned space platform. Cook engineers are working on recovery systems for Atlas and Thor missiles, and on the triple-nosed Cree rocket, designed to eject parachutes at altitudes up to 150,000 ft. and speeds as high as 3,040 m.p.h. The goal: parachutes that will permit the return to earth of a man-carrying space capsule...