Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worst was yet to come. Injuries, bad luck, and player trouble struck hard at the band of diamond hopefuls Floyd Stahi had left on Solidiers Field. Bill Tully was slow to recover from a serious appendectomy; Captain Tom Healey has been bothered by a sore arm much of the spring; Charley Brackett went on probation; Torble Macdonald hurt his ankle; and Gene Lovett and Charley Spreyer decided that the team could do without their services the rest of this year...
...know Mr. Joseph Newton Pew Jr. [TIME, May 6] and it is most unlikely that we shall ever meet. We do not move in the same circles, so to speak, which is, incidentally, more my hard luck than...
...glasses. Before Mr. Roosevelt's arrival at the Capitol, House attendants worried about a leak in the sky light just over the dais. Rainwater dripped steadily through the pane containing the State Seal of Oklahoma. Towels were placed to catch the drip. But the Roosevelt luck held: just as the President's car reached the Capitol, the rain stopped. - Joined the U. S. with the 20 other American republics in a protest against the German invasions as "unjustifiable and cruel...
Starting with the loss of pitcher Charley Brackett, the squad has been continually frowned on by Lady Luck. Gil Whittemore was laid up with a bad leg; Torby Macdonald's sprained ankle kept him out of competition for several weeks; Gene Lovett and Charley Spreyer dropped out of regular competition; and now Tully shows indication of a hernia that will probably keep him out of uniform for the remainder of the playing season...
...Farrell Metten, dean of U. S. naval designing engineers, New York Ship.'s big cut of the shipbuilding boom was most welcome. In 1935, after he became president, his firm lost an uncomfortable $1,415,373 on its 1933-34 contracts. Last year it earned $928,264. With luck, 1940 might set a record. From a Delaware farm, Jack Metten went to work repairing ships at Newport News when...