Word: jinx
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fenn as "In our class." Navy and the University of Maryland, the other opponents, have never been downed by the Crimson, and since the team will not have a field on which to practice until it makes the Southern trip, there seems to be little chance that the jinx will be broken this spring...
...despite this weakness, the poetic brilliance of the second issue of Trend has both the originality and pertinence, requisite for successful undergraduate literary effort, and subscribers may rejoice that the publication has not fallen before the "Sophomore Jinx." Improved in appearance and more experimental in context, this copy is a worthy complement to its sloppier but more staid predecessor...
...break the supposed jinx of Friday the 13, Leverett House is flaunting tradition and superstition by holding its winter formal dance on that date next week...
...since the rivalry opened in 1931 have the Indians succeeded in beating the Crimson tankmen, but this year Dartmouth rules a slight favorite to break the long-standing jinx. Unless the Crimson has all the breaks in today's meet, the chances are the Big Green will prove too strong and will take the meet handily...
...TIME'S "cover jinx" has sometimes appeared to work on sports figures but not on others. Franklin Roosevelt, who has appeared on TIME'S cover six times (including this week) since 1923 has, apparently, never felt it. No jinx operated on Admiral Kimmel or General von Bock: the Admiral was placed on the cover after the news of Pearl Harbor arrived; of the General TIME said in its cover story, "when a list is made of the generals who have done most to whittle down Germany's chances of victory the name of Bock may lead...