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Word: jinx (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last decade, a new explanation was offered for the Brown jinx by the presence of Dick Harlow at Harvard...

Author: By Samuel Spade, | Title: Bewitched Brown Out to Snap Spell | 11/13/1948 | See Source »

...doesn't sound as though the jinx lays heavily on Brown this year. And why should it? With Dick Harlow on their side, with six straight victories after losing their Yale game opener behind them, Brown is truly loaded for b'ar as it prepares to make it seven straight...

Author: By Samuel Spade, | Title: Bewitched Brown Out to Snap Spell | 11/13/1948 | See Source »

...Donnell and Vince Moravoc, three other captain the other three victims were Don Forte, Joe Gardolla, and Torbie Macdonald. The last three all were Crimson colors before 1943, the year Harvard placed formal football in mothballs for the duration of the war. Only Franny Lee in 1941 escaped jinx...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Injuries Have Hit 6 of Last 7 Football Captains, from MacDonald to O'Donnell | 11/13/1948 | See Source »

...that Li'l Abner was "Mr. Bong" from the sound of a sledge hammer bopping his skull.) At the start of the marriage ceremony last Sunday, Li'l Abner was confident that something would happen to stop it. After all, Joe Btfsplk, the world's worst jinx, was standing by and when he was around, "somethin' awful," like an earthquake, always happened to disrupt things. But as Li'l Abner said "Ah Do" and heard the awful words, ". . . man an' wife," he suddenly realized that nothing had happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Btfsplk Does It | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...Born. To Jinx Falkenburg, 29, ex-model and cinemactress (Cover Girl), now chatty hostess of NBC's evening interview Tex and Jinx, and John Reagan ("Tex") McCrary, 37, Tex and Jinx's drawling host: their second child, second son; in Manhattan. Name: Kevin. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 23, 1948 | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

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