Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plans to marry Yvonne Jeanne Gagelias before leaving France, take her back to his home in Haw River, N. C.: "I'll soon have my sweetie talking hillbilly instead of sign language." One Raleigh bridegroom, under age, wired home for permission to marry, got back a cable: "Good luck. Can't be much worse than one you had here...
...Clarence K. Streit, who reported it thus: ". . . His racing monoplane cut through a 30,000-volt railway trolley in a blinding flash. His three-blade metal propeller became entangled in the cable supporting the trolley, and the monoplane whirled around. The tail flew off, but General Udet's luck remained. The cable was mounted on pulleys and counterweights, which allowed it to run out with the plane. The cable stood the shock of the 950-h.p. machine moving at 100 miles per hour. It held the remains of the plane, checked its speed, and, relatively speaking, eased...
...always noticed a lot of things that other people never thought about. It came to him that his experience in Vera Cruz was specially planned by God as part of his training. In lonely sea-watches he figured it out. God had given him his common sense and uncommon luck to enable him some day to sail out across the Black Ocean where no living man has been and bring back the truth. When he got stuck in the fo'c's'le hatch of a foundering old tub Harry knew his drowning...
...nurses or doctors contract tuberculosis from their patients, that, in the eye of New York State's law, is their bad luck. This attitude reflects the fact that practically all human beings are infected at some time in their lives by the germs of tuberculosis; if the disease explodes in a nurse while she works in a special tuberculosis hospital, it is an accident of life, not an occupational damage...
Last summer two St. Louis boys decided to enter the field. Little knowing what their luck would be. Robert Urian Jr., 22. and Charles Curry, 23, left for South America. In Peru a guide led them on a chase after chinchillas and they wound up with a plant by the same name. In Lima they ran low on money, so Partner Curry hurried back to the U. S. to recoup. Partner Urian went on to Chile, arrived with only $30. Near Santiago he found a man who had trapped several chinchillas and would sell five. When Partner Curry finally rejoined...