Word: luck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could. But it was an unpopular time to strike; soon the Wobblies were made to realize it. Bodies were found of men who had "committed suicide;" homes were wrecked, men beaten up by night-riders. Jimmie did not advertise his I. W. W. membership but it was known. By luck he escaped, but his spirit was broken; when the trouble was over he resigned as a Wobbly. But from then on nothing went right. He lost job after job, wages tumbled; first one child, then the other died of spinal meningitis. They would have been evicted from their house...
...Browne then questioned German scientists. The majority answered that, with all humbuggery discounted, a large number of successes remained which could not be accounted for by luck or chance. Some favored the explanation of the late Sir William F. Barrett, British physicist, that dowsers have a subconscious power something like the unexplained homing instinct of birds. Others were inclined to believe the theory of Professor John Walter Gregory of University of Glasgow that dowsers learn to recognize certain topographical formations which accompany underground water. A famed British dowser, who had the ability as a child, is the Hon. David Bowes...
Saint Paul, Minnesota, January 28--The racket by which the families and friends of students in Harvard College and the Graduate Schools are victims of fake hard luck stories and other schemes for obtaining money falsely is by no means limited to residents of New York City and vicinity, according to information gathered here recently. During the past year, especially, residents of middle western cities have been bothered in much the same fashion as those New Yorkers cited in a recent dispatch from Cambridge...
Because of the wide spread unemployment, the hard luck stories carry a great deal of weight. According to L. B. Keim '29, the writer of the letter, the racketeers have, by these methods, succeeded in carrying out their schemes. Since the writer suggested that the plan could be killed by effective publicity. Dean Hanford has made the communication known to the CRIMSON...
...people where there is at present a member of one of the big colleges in the family, or where there has recently been a college student. They claim to know all your friends, the club you belonged to, and so forth. Their story is always one of hard luck, and want assistance. Sometimes they have a confederate meet them a few minutes after they arrive, and then the two of them try anything they think they may succeed at. In any case where they have had help offered them they fail to return to obtain it. One has been known...