Word: luck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Skippers' marks are always infinitely chaotic and variable. They range from groups 2 to 6 from semester to semester; from A to E in a single marking period. When a Skipper has his moments of success, he sees it as "good luck," a freak communion with a grader, an unexpected compliment. And when he happens to flunk out (with marks like two A's and two E's, his low marks do not faze him at all, since he thinks they are so crazy. He has a moderately unshakable estimate of his own intelligence and a measure of satisfaction with...
John Olson, shooting number six, ran into hard luck, as he has all season. He shot a 72 (two over par) but was paired with the Dartmouth golfer who shot a par score, and he lost one up. Olson had turned in the best round at the Easterns last weekend, when the Crimson placed a disappointing twelfth of 14 teams...
Lloyd I. Rudoloph, Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Dunster House, the first to notice the weighty laundry bag, said last night that there are no clues to the identity of the culprits. "The laundry bag had no number on it, which indicates either great luck or great cunning," Rudolph noted...
...claimed, not on the hour but nearly two days later, and not by the perennial underdog but by a platoon of upper-income New Jersey businessmen who arrived at the track in a long green Cadillac and left behind them the dis tinct impression of a gamble involving neither luck nor love of the game but of a cold-eyed investment by men who know their way around...
...Ridder in San Jose is Grandson Joseph B., 44, who went West after the acquisition, applied the laissez-faire Ridder formula, and still cannot quite believe in his luck. Like all Ridder newspapers, Joseph's pair are run as if the others did not exist. The last San Jose newspaper crusade petered out ten years ago, after the city built the new civic center that its two dailies had plumped for. By then the boom was well under way, and about all Grandson Joseph had to do was let it boom...