Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announcing the time of examinations. In the present April hours there have been many courses in which were given no other than class room notices, and in some cases these were changed at various times so that unless the class was regularly attended, the student was, "out of luck", to use the words of an instructor...
Hear the hens laugh- Cluck! Cluck! Cluck! Foreign yolks have come unstuck! One egg, two eggs, three for luck...
...whenever the races are over, the play is wildest. Losers are trying desperately to win it all back. Winners are giving their luck a ride. There are only a few minutes left. For Tiajuana has practically no hotel accommodations and the U.S. border closes...
...stroke of ill-luck, the one really pressing matter that came before the new Cabinet as soon as it was formed was a matter in the province of the one new Cabinet member who had not reached Washington?the new Secretary of State, Colonel Stimson. There was little doubt that the leaders of the Mexican revolt (see p. 27) timed their uprising in order to catch the new administration off its guard in hope that its support of the existent regime in Mexico would be weak...
Disappointed in motor cars, Mr. Buick determinedly tried his luck in other fields, and always with unfortunate results. He went to California and organized an oil company. To finance the oil company he sold much of his automobile stock. Then title litigation wrecked the oil company? expensive litigation that consumed the remainder of the stock. With what he saved from the oil disaster. Mr. Buick went into real estate. He became partner in a company that controlled many acres. Unfortunately, they were Florida acres, and when the Florida boom collapsed the last of Mr. Buick's fortune went with...