Word: luck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This year bad luck dogged him from the first seeding. In March a biting frost swept through the Panhandle, nipped his young sprouts. Then came fierce storms which pelted his fields with hail, knocking the kernels from their soft sheaves. Cutworms invaded his empire, devouring life-giving roots. Long, hot, cloudless weeks baked his rich soil until surviving stalks of wheat withered and died. When harvest time came most of his silver combines and tractors remained in his sheds. Only 3,000 acres had a crop worth reaping. They yielded but 11 bu. per acre...
...been more than a few cases of kind schoolmasters padding a student's grade. The Old Plan examination method of the oldest and best-known American universities depends too much on the chance that the pupil will have the ideal combination of "knowledge, health, and temperament, cleverness, and good luck" at one time...
...Wind and luck combined to give the Harvard '36 soccer team a 4 to 1 victory over Dean Academy in a game played on Saturday on the Business School field...
...jewels. Among his victims were the first Mrs. Clarence Mackay, Joshua Cosden, Mr. & Mrs. Jesse Livermore. While robbing the Livermore bedroom, suave Arthur Barry courteously lit a cigaret for Mrs. Livermore, refrained from taking a ring which she particularly fancied, hoped it would bring her luck...
...Blue was unable to make one first down against the Harvard men, but the freshmen had similar luck in making any yardage through the Andover line. Jackson and Gibson showed up as the best ball carriers for the Cambridge freshmen...