Word: bucks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...floor which in many places is smooth enough for a motor car to travel at top speed. Thus Dr. Andrews found that the Mongolian wild ass attains a speed of 40 m.p.h., the wolf 36 m.p.h., the antelope 60 m.p.h. Once from his moving car he shot a running buck, completely severing a hind leg. On three legs the maimed animal kept running at 25 m.p.h. for five miles, then escaped...
Yesterday's subscribers are: Phillip Bard, E. G. Boring, P.C. Brinton, P. H. Buck, F. S. Cawley, C. L. Dawes, James Ford, J. s. Hathaway, E. E. Hanson, G. B. Kistiakowaky, J. t. Murray, and W. s. Osgood...
...Government out of private business after the War helped the Republican party win the 1920 election. Twelve years passed but few U. S. businessmen could see where that campaign pledge had been fulfilled by the G. O. P. In good times, they loudly complained, it was difficult enough to buck the U.S. as a rival producer. In bad times it was ruinously impossible. Last May the Democratic House of Representatives voted to investigate the whole problem of Government competition with private enterprise. Appointed was a special committee, chairmanned by Representative Joseph B. Shannon, Kansas City lawyer and onetime...
...went and roped one. After digging-hours his children and children-in-law found plenty of trouble to keep themselves busy. Darling Jill was most promiscuous: she seduced her brother-in-law Will and the albino, between whiles teased her potbellied suitor Pluto nearly frantic. Will and Buck's quarrel over Buck's wife, Griselda. was settled when company police shot Will as a labor agitator. Buck soothed his itching trigger-finger when another brother came after Griselda; then he went up the hill to shoot himself. As soon as the excitement was over Ty Ty went...
...usefulness of the economic scholar. And one feels an ironic inconsistency in Mr. Prince's simultaneous dicta that college chairs attract only these whom the world refuses, and that the incumbents of those chairs did not save the world from disaster. The harassed capitalist's desire to pass the buck is, however, not too difficult to understand...