Word: buckings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paul H. Buck, Director of the University Library, charged yesterday that students from other colleges were illegally using Lamont Library as a "day-to-day" library. He indicated that he University may have to take action "to stop outsiders from displacing Harvard students...
Students from other colleges in the Boston area are taking advantage of Lamont's facilities in spite of the rule limiting use of the library to members of the University, Buck said. While this illegal use has not created any great crowding problems so far this term, "there may be a crisis during Reading Period," he predicted...
Many of the reports issued by brokers present sober, useful information. But there are also many "blue-sky" writeups that promise great things and fast-buck operators who spread rumors. "The same wild rumor that moved a stock one-eighth a year ago seems to move it eight points today," says Paul Windels Jr., Manhattan district boss...
...real life, TV's Wyatt Earp was a hardheaded businessman, less interested in law and order than he was in the fast buck. He reorganized the red-light district while he was in Dodge City, charged a fat fee for protection, and collected besides a sizable percentage of every fine he levied. He rarely fired a shot, made his reputation pistol-whipping drunken waddies...
...Buck Jones, Hoot Gibson, Tim McCoy, Bob Steele had little to add to the formula, and the singing cowboys, Gene Autry and later, Roy Rogers, added little more than a sour note. Nevertheless, during the '30s the oats ripened rapidly. Gary Cooper, a sort of Abe Lincoln in Levi's, and John Wayne, a smoke-wagon Siegfried, represented in different ways a more mature attempt on the part of the western hero to behave like a man. And in such pictures as John Ford's Stagecoach and William Wellman's The Ox-Bow Incident, the mythological...