Word: bucks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe that the Negro problem is insoluble at the present," said Paul H. Buck, assistant professor of History, and Pulitzer Prize winner, at his lecture on the American Negro in the Freshman Union last night...
Arriving in the Independency of San Bias,-the 200th country he has visited in the past 20 years, buck-toothed Robert LeRoy Ripley announced another believe-it-or-not: he himself is now "more widely traveled than Marco Polo, Magellan, and any other human being that ever lived." In an article for the London News-Chronicle, "1939-What Does It Hold," H. G. Wells suggested a possible solution of the world's present ills: ". . . The immediate fate of hundreds of millions of people hangs upon the unchecked impulses of a mere handful of men. You could pack the whole...
...Carmichael seems to have won the other forward job, and Buck Jordan has the center berth. The Tigers have at least three capable and experienced guards in Eddie Hobler, Dave Lloyd, and Jack Stewart. A conservative estimate of all who saw the recent Dickinson rout is that the Tigers cannot fail to rise out of the basketball doldrums this year...
...badly this year when Mrs. Edward Pelton's review of America's Sixty Families created so much dissension that the club decided to quit talking about books on current subjects. To avoid such regrettable incidents the conservative Portland Study Club chooses titles with great care, likes Pearl Buck's novels or such works as Bertita Harding's life of Franz Joseph of Austria, Golden Fleece, which Mrs. R. Roy Palmer reviewed last month...
...politics have always played a big part in Nobel Prize selections. In politically-conscious Europe Pearl Buck is famed for The Good Earth, for her pungent, telling attacks on dictators, for her tributes to the common people of China. In a broadcast to Sweden, modest Pearl Buck said simply that the award should have gone to Theodore Dreiser...