Word: lucke
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...like Piedmont and Sweet Caporal were made of unblended Carolina leaf. The year Tobaccoman Reynolds launched his cigaret of blended domestic and Turkish tobacco (1913), cigaret consumption leaped to fifteen and a half billion. He followed it up with a highly successful merchandising campaign, profited immensely by the amazing luck that fell to the tobacco industry during and after the nerve-racking years of the War. Since 1913 nearly every major brand has adopted the fundamental Camel merchandising and blending idea...
...hard luck has hit the Crimson cagers hard this last week. Captain Dick Boys is enjoying an attack of the ptomaine, Byron Moser is out until February with a bad ankle, and to cap the climax long Bill Gray is taking a rest on doctor's orders. If Gray and Boys can be in uniform to greet the Cayugans, Harvard's stock will be high, and there seems to be no reason why another scalp cannot be added to the Harvard total of three. Three was all the games that were won last year, so anything from now on will...
With somewhat better luck in staying on their feet than they had in their game with Princeton last Saturday, it is expected that the Crimson skaters will put up a strong opposition to the more experienced Olympics. The game will allow a fairly pointed comparison to be made between Dartmouth which was trounced by the Olympics ten days ago and the Crimson icemen who play their next engagement at Hanover on February...
...minutes before 4 o'clock one morning last week passengers on the S.S. Havana woke up with a sharp jolt. Three hours later when they were called for breakfast they learned that hard luck had again overtaken the Ward Line. Stuck on a shoal 60 mi. east of Jupiter Light on the Florida coast was the S. S. Havana. While the passengers were eating breakfast Captain Alfred W. Peterson sent an SOS. While they were dancing the rumba in the lounge, he let down an empty lifeboat to test sea conditions. He found them rough. But the Havana...
...University of Rochester had the tremendous luck to be located in the city of Rochester, N. Y., home of George Eastman and Kodaks. The generous Kodak-maker showered Rochester with gifts of $35,500,000 during his lifetime, $20,000,000 more at his death in 1932. Rochester built a School of Music, a School of Medicine & Dentistry, a whole new campus for its College of Arts & Sciences, and still has an endowment of $54,000,000, fifth largest in the land...