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Word: lucke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second time this winter bad luck stalked the mile relay team as a fall and the subsequent bad pass prevented the Crimson quartet from gaining anything better than a fourth in the 1600 meter relay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot House Mermen Duck Yale's Trumbull College 35-27; Fencing, Track, Polo Teams Do Poorly in Weekend Frays | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

More likely, though, the Kiphuth tradition has them worried. It's almost as bad as the Dartmouth jinx. Only, the legend that Bob has built up is not based on luck. There are long and tedious grinds through the tank, novel exercises and constant experimentation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 3/6/1937 | See Source »

...YOUR NEWSWEEK McCALL ARTICLE YOU MIGHT ALSO WELL HAVE SAID THAT "MR. WARNER HAD THE SKILL OR LUCK TO PICK" EDITOR HARRY PAYNE BURTON NOW OF COSMOPOLITAN WHO TOOK A HOPELESSLY AMATEURISH PATTERN MAGAZINE FROM A MILLION CIRCULATION TO MORE THAN TWO MILLION...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 1, 1937 | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

When Allen Tate, critic and poet, had written most of a long-planned life of Robert E. Lee, Douglas Southall Freeman's four-volume, definitive R. E. Lee (TIME, Feb. 11, 1935) appeared, blew his house down before the roof was on. Last week the same meteorological hard luck seemed to be pursuing Caroline Gordon (Mrs. Allen Tate). For her Civil War novel came out in the wake of that typhoon of bestsellers, Gone With the Wind. Whether None Shall Look Back could weather the vacuum left by a super-seller covering the same ground, or whether the vacuum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: After the Big Wind | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

Despite the fact that Cornell swamped the Elis up at Ithaca, the Yale team is going to be a lot stronger when they come to the Garden for this meet; for the Blue team has a wealth of strength in the field events, and with reasonable luck they should win all four of the events they took at Cornell. That makes 20 points right there, a considerable total in a meet that may be decided with 32 or 33 points. And while Yale piles up points in the field events, Harvard and Dartmouth may very probably so cut into Cornell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/25/1937 | See Source »

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