Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the beginning of College, approximately 65 men have been working out under the critical eyes of Coach Mikkola. Although these runners have been training for the event and are on the official entry list, it is possible for any man in College to try his luck in the race Saturday if he so desires...
Other lands have adopted V for Victory, but we should adopt VV for Vicarious Victory. The following formula may bring it, if the traditional luck of fools is granted also to the timid...
Persia into Iran. But luck intervened. The U.S.S.R. decided against sovietizing northern Persia, fearing that Britain would grab the rest of the country. The British decided against grabbing the rest of the country, fearing that the U.S.S.R. would sovietize the north. For the time being, it was a standoff. Taking advantage of the lull, on Feb. 21, 1921, Colonel Reza Khan rode into Teheran at the head of 2,000 Persian Cossacks and took over...
...opening day it looked as if Ellsworth Vines might, with a little luck, become the first man to win a U.S. championship at both tennis and golf. With an elegant, easy swing similar to that of famed Francis Ouimet, Vines shot a 72 in the first round. It was not the best score of the day (bespectacled Skip Alexander of North Carolina turned in 67). But it was better than that posted by Defending Champion Dick Chapman, 1939 Champion Marvin ("Bud") Ward, onetime British Amateur Champion Charley Yates (now a U.S. Army private) and onetime U.S. Open and Amateur Champion...
...Luck. In St. Paul, Minn., police arrested three visitors at a hotel where the American Legion was holding a State convention. They carried 200 pairs of loaded dice...