Word: bucks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among the chief essays is a 40-page history of examinations at Harvard, written by Paul H. Buck, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor...
...idea had great appeal to returning servicemen, who did not yet have it made and were handy with their hands. By 1961, shell firms accounted for 8% of the one-family housing market and had be come one of Wall Street's bets on the future. But fast-buck builders swarmed in, competition stiffened, and many firms began putting up frames with little regard for quality or adequate financing. The in evitable reckoning came last year, when defaults and repossessions drove 90% of the 200 U.S. shell builders out of business, including eight of last year...
...Cover) In the gilt and white splendor of Carnegie Hall, the little ceremony seemed as homey as a washtub fiddle. "Old Buck eyes are as proud as can be of this fine, fine orchestra from Cleveland." announced the man from the Ohio Society of New York. "My gosh." answered the man from the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, "we're proud too." The Manhattan audience that had assembled for the first of the Cleveland Orchestra's current series of three New York concerts greeted this dialogue with faint, perfunctory applause. It was in no mood to encourage chatter: there...
...squeaks, and the children turn to stare at a tiny boy (John Megna) with huge buck teeth...
...Buck Rabbit, now 54, that was only the half of it. After the first trial, he was cabled by his lawyers that a motion for a new trial had been denied. Reynolds therefore felt free to marry a German girl named Annemarie Schmitt, who was taking a round-the-world cruise with him at the time. But Muriel's lawyers had quickly appealed the denial to the Georgia Supreme Court, leaving Buck and Doe Rabbit still legally...