Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mule, declared his mistress, "He's too lazy to work. We keep him here for luck. Wherever there's a mule there's luck. I love him, too. I am crazy about the rabbits. Of course when there are too many I have...
...Merrill was badly hurt, with a broken jaw, a broken ankle. Overconfident, as he readily admitted, he had been led astray by bad weather-reporting and rain static on the radio, had come down through the overcast thinking he was at Newark, had found a hillside instead. By extraordinary luck and skill he managed to make a forced landing...
...Joseph Conrad was driven aground by a squall on New Year's Eve, smashed against a pier as the salvage tugs were moving her off. A $10,000 repair bill came near grounding the expedition then & there. "Ports," warns Author Villiers, "are bad places for ships and men." Luck was with them in the only other mishap of the voyage when they grounded on a coral reef in the South Seas...
...Washington last week U. S. Weather Bureau officials cautiously told newshawks that they were having good luck with "air-mass analysis," a new weather forecasting technique which consists of a vertical examination of atmospheric conditions rather than a horizontal survey at Earth's surface. On five days during the previous week the Washington office received upper air data from Harvard's Blue Hill Observatory, where small sounding balloons were sent up with radio-meteorographs. These little gadgets contain a thermometer, hygrometer (humidity recorder), barometer, shortwave radio transmitter and batteries, encased in a streamlined aluminum shell, the whole weighing...
...almost the same age, when he resigned his Manhattan pastorate to teach English at Princeton. Tertius van Dyke was in one of his father's classes there. He went with Henry van Dyke to The Hague when Woodrow Wilson appointed the author of Fisherman's Luck U. S. Minister to The Netherlands and Luxembourg. The son grew a mustache as flowing as the father's, later collaborated with him on a syndicated newspaper column, accompanied him on innumerable trout fishing expeditions, wrote his biography when he died (TIME, Nov. 25, 1935). Tertius van Dyke moved from Manhattan...