Word: luck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each stresses what seems to him to be important. The result is that students in different sections often cover different amounts of work and always get different slants on the subject. It is unfortunate that the reactions of the students vary as much as they do, depending on their luck in instructors and personnel of sections...
...very good for general health, particularly as the hot weather has arrived. Viewed from this angle it would seem that a very healthy tendency to consume more fruit is being officially discouraged. However, forbidden fruit somehow or other has a sweeter taste, unless some misguided individual has the bad luck to pocket a lemon, in which case his sly smile will rapidly turn to a pucker...
Lefty Dick Walsh, who made an unsuccessful appearance against B.U. in the earlier encounter, will again try his luck, but the other half of the battery, namely Al Colwell, will not be present, for the slugging catcher is on the shelf due to the recurrence of a knee injury...
...Stahlman's friends back in Nashville who had signed Bozo's name to the telegram of congratulations had wished him luck. "I'll need it," said he. "They should have sent me their sympathy." Jarred to its sacroiliac by the skull-thumping sock of the Supreme Court decision in the Watson v. Associated Press case (TIME, April 19), the spine of U. S. newspaper publishing ached last week...
Captain Doughty knew enough not to blame the gods for the Hestia's bad luck...