Word: luck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From last week's series of upsets, the anonymous CRIMSON predictors emerged with a dubious 677 percentage. Nothing daunted and mumbling something about "Hard luck," the prognosticators once more attach themselves out on a limb and whisper: Harvard 20 Pennsylvania 14 Yale 7 Army 6 Princeton 13 Columbia 6 Dartmouth 20 Lafayette 6 Alabama 16 Tennessee 13 Cornell 13 Penn State 7 Temple 19 Boston College 14 Minnesota 7 Ohio State 6 Northwestern 12 Wisconsin 6 Texas A. & M. 14T. C. U. 12 Michigan 61 Chicago 0 Notre Dame 13 Navy 0 Pittsburgh 20 Duquesne 7 Holy Cross 14 Brown...
...Graduate Secretary of the Brooks House claimed knowledge of at least two men who have collected between $1.50 and $4 in three hours with their hard-luck stories. "One of these men is Albert Pike, who is known to several agencies in Boston and Cambridge as a steady and consistent sponger, whose story is invariably convincing," Dennett stated...
...raider, whoever she was, did not think for another moment of the Clement's crew. With good weather and luck, all of them reached shore. All 47 were immediately asked a question everyone wanted answered. What ship attacked? One man, apparently a spokesman, replied with assurance: "The attacking ship came so close I could read the name Admiral von Scheer." Either his eyesight or his memory was bad: the name he had meant to speak was Admiral Scheer...
...notch cow pokes miss the Broadway roundup. With luck one man can win $4,000 at the Garden while his wife gets the Broadway permanent she has been dying for. Some wives perform at the Garden too (almost all rodeos have women's bronc-riding contests). But the girl who made even the cowboys sit up-and take notice last week was a rich Texas rancher's daughter, svelte, 17-year-old Sydna Yokley, who put on as spunky an exhibition of calf roping as has ever been seen east of Powder River: throwing and tying a calf...
Watson claims that if the display taken place during the day time, "We'll just be out of luck." In that case the next sky display will not take place until 1946 when the earth may hit the comet of which these meteors are only the tall...