Word: buckings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since Metcalf's appointment as College Librarian in 1937, the Library has added almost two million books. On his retirement, Metcalf will be succeeded as Director of the University Library by Paul H. Buck, former Provost...
...McGinnis now controls 80% of all the railroad business in New England. In his corner in this fight, McGinnis had such prominent New Englanders as Burton M. Cross, former governor of Maine, and Francis P. Murphy, onetime governor of New Hampshire, plus Pierre ("Spike") Dumaine, brother of Frederic ("Buck") Dumaine, from whom McGinnis had wrested the New Haven. Spike Dumaine, who felt that he had been forced to take a back seat in running the industrial empire left by his father, was boss of the New England Transportation Co., a bus subsidiary of the New Haven, when McGinnis took over...
...picture before showing a print to the kiddies. Giovanna (Silvana Mangano) is a Venetian shopgirl. In the daytime she displays her glamorous glass for the customers; at night she is ready for broader interests. But Mario (Vittorio Gassman), her boy friend, is primarily interested in a phony buck, any way he can get it. When Silvana meets a no-count count (Michael Rennie), Vittorio sees his chance to do some three-cushion pimping. In the upshot Silvana gets drunk at a costume ball, has an experience with the count: "It was daybreak before I could leave-humiliated-disgusted ... I didn...
...allow the newly commissioned graduates to have time to get more schooling or establish job seniority. However, a Defense Department official explained that cuts in military appropriations were an important factor in the decision and that fewer officers were actually needed under the current "more bang for a buck" philosophy...
...matter what technical changes or administrative developments take place under Buck, he will still face the problem which Justin Winsor formulated 80 years ago, "How, on limited funds, to give as many people as possible as many books as possible with as little trouble as possible...