Word: luck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kilrain-Sullivan battle. The story was the work of Oland D. Russell. Few ringside sportsmen 49 years ago would have wagered that the stumbling, blotched pulp of Jake Kilrain would serve him to a ripe age of 78. Almost as astonishing as his longevity was the Mercury's luck in timing Contributor Russell's story with Jake Kilrain's unpredictable death last week, the first display of editorial prescience the monthly has made since Henry L. Mencken & George Jean Nathan started Mercury for Alfred A. Knopf 14 years ago; the most noteworthy editorial happening in the Mercury...
...close one's eyes and drive madly around the side of precipitous mountain slopes. Of course characteristic of the Mexican temperament is the fact that the mountain road was begun from Tamazunchale and from Mexico City, the center portion, and by far the most harrowing portion, being left to luck and the last. Aside from the fact that the road is unpaved, that great boulders are apt to crash down from above on the slightest provocation, and that droves of burros usually pick the narrowest part of the road they can find steadfastly to ignore any blasts the wayworn traveller...
...today to the end of our once-magnificent armada. Of the 2,500 vessels launched in the mightiest shipbuilding program in history but a few hundred aging specimens remain." Operating subsidies alone may mount under the present law to $15,000,000 or $20,000,000 per year. With luck and $50,000,000 of taxpayers' money solvent lines may launch 65 ships in the next five years. At the moment, the Commission has $200,000,000 available or earmarked. The report concluded: "We are about to start again, not in a riot of enthusiasm, not with an expenditure...
...playing for the game's sake, and that is frequently beaten out of the most ardent devotees of the sport in the first weeks of practice, is the thrill that follows an earned victory. Often this year that thrill was snatched from the team by a run of bad luck, the like which hardened sports writers admitted they had not seen in many years...
...have produced a deceptive and polished attack that will "go" in the absence of a star. That Yale is a great team cannot be denied, but the College feels that if spirit and resolution count, Harvard, too, this afternoon will be a great team. Everyone wishes the players good luck...