Word: jinxing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small chestnut stallion who began his career as a flat racer, pulled ahead. At Canal Turn, Royal Mail- whose former owner, Hugh Lloyd Thomas, was killed while training to ride the race, whose jockey fractured a collarbone last month-succumbed to his jinx. He burst a blood vessel and pulled out of the race...
...baseballers training in Florida look at the newspapers, tilt back their caps, and call it a jinx. Mr. Roosevelt is rumored to have told a press conference with a wholesome laugh that it is an affliction of undoubtedly some seriousness for his friends the American people. Geologists deny that it has any greater significance than a coincidence of geographical sequence. One minister in Vermont, it is said, confidentially revealed to his parishioners that if it isn't a sign of divine irritation over the condition of world politics, then it must be a renewed heavenly assault upon man's original...
...twice-beaten Princeton team started off to a 9-to-0 lead it looked as though Dartmouth would have to wait another 24 years. Then at the end of the second quarter. Dartmouth's undefeated Indians commenced to function. By the end of the fourth quarter the Princeton jinx had been undeniably smashed...
...lineup, injury jinx makes the principal problem. Of three veteran and stellar fullbacks, Coach Carr never knows for certain if any of them will be able to play until about the day of a game. Captain Dick Powell is permanently benched with a trick knee; Joe Bradley has a thigh ailment which usually allows him to play at least part of a game, recurs, and keeps him out for two or three days. Ted Robie injured his spleen in a headon tackle in the Dartmouth game and finds his return to action pretty much...
...Hampshire Indians were not on their best guest behavior, however, and tomahawked their hosts with great glee by taking their first victory of the series. No other Hanover eleven can over hope to earn as celebrated a triumph unless it be the one which broke the Yale Bowl jinx. The score of this initial Green success...