Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...midnight Nazidom's first avowed pogrom was ready to burst. Once again, however, Nazi luck held. Just before the brownshirt mobs got completely out of hand Franconia's famed Jew-baiting Boss Nazi, Dr. Julius Streicher, decided that somebody had made a mistake. Though he has shrieked "Death to Jews!" from a thousand hustings, Nazi Streicher abruptly blamed everything on a subordinate official of his Brown House and manifestoed in time's nick: "Irresponsible elements have been spreading rumors that Jews had attempted to assassinate our Leader. In the ensuing excitement they demanded that Jews be punished...
...Congress, twelve of them in the Senate where he succeeded the greatest of Mississippi's statesmen, the late John Sharp Williams. No one ever accused Mr. Stephens of being a counterpart of Williams, but he was well liked by his colleagues. Last year he ran into hard luck...
...weather, the terrain, the supply of game put an element of luck into bird-dog trials that even the long three-hour runs in the National cannot wholly counterbalance. When Henry M. Curry's Homewood Flirtatious, paired with Doctor Blue Willing, found eight coveys and two singles on the first day of the trials, the judges might have suspected her of being merely fortunate until they saw her in the brief 30-minute runoff. Then paired with Andrew G. C. Sage's Sulu. Homewood Flirtatious found her first covey 50 seconds after she was put down. Two minutes...
This is an expansion of the wire-pulling thesis. It is claimed that the members of the course are there through conspiracy or luck. Inasmuch as not more than two of our class had even a speaking acquaintance with the instructor at the first of the year, this left a great deal to chance. The manuscripts which we handed in for approval before being admitted were, of course, written under the influence of chance...
Though Dartmouth will be a formidable opponent tomorrow night, most of the duals for points will come between Harvard and Cornell as the Hanoverians have the luck to be strong in the events in which the other two are weak...