Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Living Reed, Buck...
...line and was beaten by mobsters; others say the cops banged him over the head. In any event, his union career was short-lived. He was admitted to the Army Air Forces during World War II, served three inconspicuous years, came out a pfc. and returned to whatever buck-producing activity he could find. For a while he scalped tickets for sporting events, boxed for a short time under the name of "Sparkling Ruby." His friends still call him "Sparky...
...sideline. Trying to lend moral assistance to a Bear field-goal attempt, he once booted a 240-lb. guard right off the bench. Another time, he curtly ordered a rookie:"Taylor, we've run out of time outs. Go in and get hurt." Even tougher with a buck, Halas has been known to wrestle fans for the football after extra-point plays, and a player on a visiting team once complained that Halas provided only two bars of soap for 36 players. To a Bear player who pleaded for an advance "to buy my kid milk " Halas gallantly replied...
...contributors include Paul H. Buck, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor; Franklin L. Ford, Dean of the Faculty; David Riesman, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences Gerald Helton, professor of Physics; George Wald, professor of Biology; and Oscar Handlin, professor of History. They discuss exhaustively every aspect of the examination system...
Except for Buck's offering which traces the history of exams at Harvard the rest of the essays approach the problem from different angles but off discuss primarily how the exam can be utilized best educationally...