Word: jinxed
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...boys from Lewiston, and Coach Casey will probably concentrate on running plays this week. On the offense Bates tacklers often sifted through the Harvard line and nabbed the runners from behind, but the Bobcats could make little impression on the Crimson forward wall. Defensively, except against the old jinx--forward passes--the Harvard team looked unusually good for an opening game...
...conscript the massed and hoarded money of the country and put it to work?" He killed himself with gas. Amid such circumstances the U. S. Government last week closed its 1933 ledger. It began a new fiscal year in which President Roosevelt was determined to break the Treasury jinx of a fantastically unbalanced budget even if he also broke hearts & homes. A balanced budget, he thought, will break fewer hearts than have been broken by the unbalanced budget of the last three years. Franklin Roosevelt entered the White House last March under a solemn campaign pledge to cut Government costs...
...plane, with a crew of two pilots, a radioman & mechanic, is equipped with a pneumatic lifeboat. Each man has a sort of light diving suit in which he can live for half an hour under water. Taboo as provisions are liquor and chicken. To Italian airmen fowl is a jinx...
...defeat at the hands of the Indians, the Crimson baseball team will seek to redeem itself in the second encounter with a strong, confident Dartmouth outfit tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock, on Soldiers Field. Until the last two encounters, the team seemed to be followed by a jinx which left when they defeated finally a Graduate team which had previously defeated Yale. Then they defeated B. U., and, with a somewhat changed lineup, should play a closely-contested match...
...Treasury took in more than it spent and closed its books with a hopeful little profit. March receipts: $283,185,773; expenditures: $282,367,864; surplus: $817,909. March 15 income tax payments, together with a drop in expenses, helped to break the Treasury's 18-month jinx...