Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paused for fuel at Reno, zipped over Vancouver Airport in less than 6 hr., flew 100 mi. farther before he realized he had passed his goal. Turning back, he landed with a new record of 6 hr. 42 min. Awaiting Pilot Wedell was a note from Hawks: "Best of luck. Jimmy. See you in Mexico tonight." But Wedell had enough for one day. Meanwhile Pilot Hawks had flown only as far as Granada, Calif., near the Oregon border, where he landed in a field, nearly unconscious from carbon monoxide fumes...
...Luck...
...Heming-wayman and get away with it: his mother did not speak English so good. Frankie had left a fair job in a factory for a much better one, driving a truck for Bootlegger Visconti. His hours were long but he worked only one day a week. Good & bad luck hit Frankie about the same time. He met Rosie at a dance hall, and he got a warning from a rival 'legger that hereafter his weekly trip would not be safe...
Echoes of days when feeling ran high are heard in a Crimson article for November 26, 1894, which gave the following version of the game that year, under the heading: "Yale Wins the Game; Harvard plays the Better, but Loses Through III-Luck and Bad Decisions." A two-year hiatus in the series with the Blue ensued...
...Harvard clearly outplayed her opponent at every point; in team work, in punting and drop-kicking, and, in many cases, in individual playing. Yet Yale, by a combination of good luck, and questionable decisions of the officials of the game, not only defeated Harvard but had some points to spare...