Search Details

Word: flukes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...indoor championships, California's bouncy 25-year-old Gertrude ("Gussie") Moran took the court for the finals against fellow Californian Nancy Chaffee. Gussie was out to prove that her strong semifinals play against National Champion Margaret Osborne du Pont at Forest Hills last September was no fluke. She did; hitting a powerful ball, she made it a 35-minute match...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Indoors & Out | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

...hundreds of companies that make a living out of novelty hats, the fashion whims of the U.S. moppet mean the difference between feast & famine. Success in this fast-moving, heads-up business is often a fluke. But last week Ben Molin and Joe Rosenbaum, owners of Brooklyn's Benay-Albee Novelty Co., thought they had it down to a pseudoscience, something like phrenology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW PRODUCTS: Ben, Joe & the Kiddies | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

Princeton picked up a fluke goal in the middle period when a loose puck bounced off the stick of Jack Carman in the Crimson goal mouth and rolled past goalie Phil Clark...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Hockey Team Trims Tigers 5-3, in Contest at Princeton | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...your albums see you"), and dropping into record shops to wow the salesgirls. Says Frankie, who likes to say his success is all a mystery and not a matter of mugging, writhing and hard work: "I can't explain it. Some people say I'm a fluke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Feels Good That Way | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

Dunster, with slightly better coordinated lines, suffered from having only two lines to Kirkland's three, and from the Deacon's superior luck--the winning goal was scored on a fluke shot from the blue line which caromed into the nets...

Author: By John R. W. smail, | Title: Deacons Beat Funsters, 5-4, In Pucks Tilt | 1/19/1949 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Next