Word: luck
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Lowell has offered his cooperation in a letter to the paper, and now the officials of the Union have started an experiment to see just how keenly those who are taking pot luck about the Square wish to enjoy better eating conditions. With this installation of club tables an actual step has been taken toward a permanent system of this kind on a larger scale. Thus it is obvious that those who wish to see a central eating place, run by the University, where food can be obtained at sane prices and eaten in congenial surroundings in a fashion...
...cent stamp with two bears holding a shield; the one-franc tête bêche stamps (printed upside down); the freak inverted 24-cent U. S. airplane stamps (only one sheet of them got into circulation) and many another scrap of paper that it would be bad luck to throw away if found on some old letters in the attic...
...back at youth, he could only see the smolder of coke fires, hear the tinny strum of a trolley going into a mine, hard work, devotion. No one can say that Frick did not work hard. No one can say that he might not have been successful with no luck at all. But the fact remains that, in the panic of 1873, a lot of Pennsylvania bituminous coal lands were put up for sale at a fraction of their value and Frick (with money borrowed from his relatives-he was but 24 then) bought them and became a millionaire...
...much noise has resounded in the press rooms from typewriters pregnant with messages concerning the morals and luck of morals in the American college and university. The final supposedly deft, handling of such stupid trifling with misunderstood ideas is the symposium, so fundamentally truthful, accomplished by multiple lists of questions sent about the country to various and sundry editors of college papers. The list which Liberty has sent included such valuable, succinct, and apt interrogations as these...
...slain chief's grave lay in a pit above which the woman was stretched on a hide; the witch-man leaped high, making medicine for war while tom-toms rustled and torches veered. A chief had been murdered; now the tribe, protected by strong medicine against bad luck, would move through the jungle to kill his killers. They would move safely in a line through the jungle; no spear could wound, no knife had power to part their skin, so potent was the medicine the witch-man made for them in the shaking torchlight. He would kill the woman...