Word: bucks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proposed addition, Buck said, has become possible only with the development of air conditioning and lighting, which are more efficient than that used when the library was first constructed...
...University plans to fill the bottom part of Widener Library's two inner courtyards with four floors of stack space and offices, Paul H. Buck, director of the University Library, revealed yesterday...
...addition, according to Buck, will free space in other parts of Widener for such uses as a history reading room and more stalls...
After Byrd came George Washington, who saw a chance to make a buck out of the bogs. Washington bought up a chunk of the swamp, organized a company called "Adventurers for Draining the Great Dismal Swamp," put slaves to work building a canal, which is still in use. It was profitless. Washington finally sold the land to Lighthorse Harry Lee for $20,000, but when Lee could not meet the payments, the property reverted to Washington and was sold with Washington's estate...
Every once in a while, somebody alarms about half the Masters with the suggestion that assigning Freshmen to House be the job of "some fellow with a computer." Such a scheme sounds like pure buck-passing, and in some ways it is just that, for the preparation of a complex problem for processing by any kind of automatic calculating device naturally takes a good many hours' work. And yet, as it happens, the computer alternative to the system that now overwhelms House staffs each spring is--if conceivably not desirable--at least feasible. It could almost certainly be made...