Word: luck
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Louis. Col. Lindbergh is meticulously examining the ship by electric flashlight; guaranteeing to himself her fitness. In her cabin he stows unaccustomed implements, fish hooks, a cruel, keen machete.* Fish hooks for food; the knife to cut a path out of any tangled jungle into which ill luck may spill...
...proud to fight." Had that not been attributed to Wilson at just one critical moment in our history it would have had no more power than any other group of four words. I admire Prime Minister Baldwin for his homespun virtues, and I rejoice at his steady political good luck-but I consider him a weak, not a powerful, speaker. That this is not set down in malice, you may judge from the fact that I have received only this morning the chance knowledge that a certain brand of tobacco is that which is smoked by both Mr. Baldwin...
Through the ages teachers have viewed with alarm, nodded with sadness, reported with regret. At New Haven, Conn., last week precedent and an electric light globe were shattered when an elert candidate for the Yale Daily News saw bad luck attend the careless exuberance of his teacher, used the printed word to tattle...
...done his work with regularity and precision. Both receive the same grade. That grade influences the mid-year or final mark in varying degrees but it is safe to say that seldom is it quite ignored. Thus one who has received his start by a streak of luck, luck which rarely comes to pass in the examinations held at later periods of the college year, is saved in the end not by the pace which he has maintained but by the apparent agility with which he has greeted the opening gun. The opposite may happen equally well...
...chairman of Sears, Roe- buck & Co., 115-millionaire, issued a statement on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Mr. Rosenwald said: "I was lucky, not a genius. With rare exceptions, the man who accumulates wealth displays no more genius than the prize-winner in any lottery. It is by luck that a man gets hold of a good thing at the right time and more by luck that he holds...