Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hard luck still pursues the Freshman football squad on the day of its second game. The delegation that will travel to Exeter this afternoon to battle one of the strongest school teams in the East is even more depleted than that which lost to Andover last week...
University students do not take much stock in the superstition that walking under a ladder brings bad luck. A lamp cleaner placed his ladder across the walk leaning against a lamp post on the corner of Quincy Street and Massachusetts Avenue. During the five minutes the ladder was across the walk, 22 men, most of them students, walked boldly under the ladder and tempted the gods of fate. In the same interval only one person took the trouble of walking around the foot of the ladder and avoid the consequent ill fortune...
...short time, then three companies of troops were quartered there, and finally General Burgoyne in 1777 was kept a prisoner in it. After the revolution it changed hands three times, each owner becoming financially ruined. Thus Apthorp House has carried down with it during the years, tradition of bad luck. This was amply illustrated last year when members of Apthorp House lost a monkey. It is an open question now whether the La Follette-Wheeler Campaign at Harvard will also suffer from the ill fated destiny of Apthorp House...
...triumph is all the more gratifying because of its decisiveness. Luck or flukes were not a factor; the outcome was due to nothing but the superb consistency of Jones. Bringing his medal play psychology into match competition, he overcame an old bugaboo and disposed of a formidable group of distinguished players with comparative ease. So consistent was his performance that one of his opponents was able to carry him beyond the thirty-fourth green. Surely a well deserved victory and a popular one. The University is glad to number a crowned head among its graduates, and to wish a long...
...estate and rentals. It is carrying many industrial concerns which have been sick ever since 1920 and are even sicker today. It is facilitating railway and utility mergers, and European recovery. But unless it leads to inflation, American business remains distinctly spotty. The Kansas farmer this year is in luck, while the textile-mill operator of New England is distinctly out of luck. The time for the average business man to shut his eyes and dive in has not yet arrived...