Word: jinxed
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...consistent performer in all the games he has taken part in. His chief weakness lies in his susceptibility to injuries which have often kept him on the side lines when his presence in the line up might have been a deciding factor. If he succeeds in avoiding the injury jinx this season, his tremendous speed and wealth of experience should go far towards making the current season a successful...
...signals which almost re-ignited the craft, sent by radio S. 0. S., false position and corrected position signals, grew seasick. All wireless resources spanning the Atlantic came into play. Twelve steamships altered or considered altering their courses for rescue purposes. In the meantime Courtney pondered the almost indefatigable jinx which has attended his flying career (TIME, July 18, 27). At length radio-operator Gilmour said he saw a ship. "Liar," remarked Courtney, near-defeatist...
Frances Alda (soprano, wife of Giulio Gatti-Casazza, czar of the Metropolitan Opera Company) has no children, wants some. Said she: "In a few months I shall ask Miss Spence of the Spence School [Manhattan] to find me two adorable babies. I do not believe in the heredity jinx. I ask only that the babies be intelligent and healthy. I'll want them, regardless of parentage or legitimacy...
George Owen Jr. '23, who in his three years of football at Harvard was a jinx to Yale teams, commenting yesterday to the CRIMSON on today's game, said: "Harvard has shown on several occasions this fall that it has power. But it has not yet shown the sustained power that will be necessary in its biggest game, and whether it attains that power is a question that only the team can decide...
...injury jinx reappeared at Soldiers Field yesterday when G. E. Donaghy '29, substitute halfback, who started against Dartmouth last Saturday and starred with his punting throughout the game, reported with a leg injury which will definitely keep him on the sidelines in the Indiana contest this week...