Word: luck
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Visitors Have Had Bad Luck...
...showed how today we believe our civilization is insecure for we have doubts about ourselves, and our accomplishments, but he added that we could have no doubts about the accomplishments and sacrifices of the dead. The unfortunate part is that sorrow must remain. "We remember how we said good luck when we could not say goodbye". He then showed how there could be no help for sorrow in words but only in the thought expressed by words. At the news of Lincoln's death a wave of sorrow went over the country but those who felt it most said least...
Neighboring towns had better luck, for Hamborn city fathers introduced the same tax under a per capita assessment. In other places bachelors are being subjected to a residence...
...days when the rest of the College world has left for the vacation. Whether the experiment is successful enough to become a fixture depends largely upon the cooperation of the undergraduates. Those who do not go their half of the way by leaving their summer addresses cannot, if "ill luck attend them", expect to have redress and will only contribute to the failure of the experiment...
...long, however. The Henley flags were scarcely 100 yards distant and Bassett reciprocated the Unions' move by an equal advance in pace which soon squared matters. There was nothing to do now but dig and trust to luck and both sets of oarsmen taxed their reserve power to the limit in those final seconds. All to no purpose, however, for the two prows cut the line at the same instant, registering a dead heat...