Word: luck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fascist Italy's minute minority of 48,000 Jews were fearful last month that their luck might be running out (TIME, July 18). Last week they learned officially that it was running out indeed. On the heels of a manifesto drawn up by ten Fascist savants, declaring that Italians are "Aryan, Nordic and heroic" and that "Jews do not belong to the Italian race," came announcement from Fascist Party Secretary Achille Starace that the Government had prepared a series of laws to "defend the race against all contamination...
...Roosevelt luck" at Amarillo, Tex. The evening he stopped to speak there, in the middle of the "Dust Bowl," rain poured down...
Unity was founded 50 years ago in Kansas City by a wife and husband, down on their luck, named Myrtle and Charles Fillmore. Suffering from tuberculosis Mrs. Fillmore suddenly came to believe that there was a supreme power which could conquer all "negative or destructive agencies." She cured herself of her ailment and Mr. Fillmore got over a diseased hip. Accounting themselves new interpreters of the "scientific teachings" of Jesus Christ, the Fillmores set out to devote their lives to spreading the gospel of Unity, declaring that man could maintain direct communication with God (in morning and evening "silences...
...picture printed last week is not the first barytron track to be photographed, but it is the best and perhaps the most unmistakable. Furthermore, it shows this cosmic particle "dying"-i.e., coming to rest in the gas. This was a rare piece of scientific luck but also a reward for patience...
With 1,500 gallons of gas in the tanks, America's most purposeful playboy, Howard Hughes, at the controls, and a wad of gum on her tail for luck, a silver Lockheed monoplane roared up off Floyd Bennett Field, Long Island, one hot evening this week. The New York World's Fair 1939 was bound for Paris with a crew of four-Navigator Harry P. M. Connor, veteran of Captain Erroll Boyd's Montreal-London hop in 1930; Navigator Lieut...