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Word: lucke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...really very luck getting a free baton and a free guide book," he concludes. "If an urchin says to you, 'Where did you get that stick, Mister?' reply, 'I, sir, am a Harvard man.' Then duck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WORLD'S FAIR DAY MARSHAL STRESSES IMPORT OF BATON | 5/18/1940 | See Source »

...Grenadiers of Liegnitz, Silesia, whose honorary chiefs were the Kaiser and the Tsar. Schoolmates recall him as a witty wisecracker, gay, with a talent for dramatics. But he stuck to soldiering faithfully, gained his lieutenancy in time for World War I. By bravery at Longwy and the Meuse, by luck at Verdun, he rose and survived to become a staff officer under Count Rüdiger von der Goltz, who in 1918 was sent to help Baron Mannerheim win Finland's independence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN THEATRE: 23 Days | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

...rabbity couple meet at a dance, flee that night to the woods to become trappers. Unmarried, dogged by hard luck in the shape of game wardens, Federal agents, swindlers, nature, they try fishing, working for a Yankee fruit grower, moonshining, end their hard luck odyssey right where they started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crackers Collected | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

Husband Wanger, one of Midwick's few movie members, strove manfully to bring the social irreconcilables together. He had little luck. The only real fraternization went on in the party of tall, dark Mrs. Edwin Earl and her husband, whose father owned Los Angeles' defunct Express. Her group contained Lawyer Thomas Joyce, Comedian Robert Benchley, Cinemactress Rosalind Russell, Poloist Eric Pedley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Middick | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

Harassed by bad weather and bad luck the lacrosse team dropped two games to Stevens Institute and the West Pointers respectively last week. But these defeats belie the potential strength of Coach Johnnie Wither-spoon's ten, and they should begin to click again in this afternoon's conquest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON STICKMEN TO BATTLE TUFTS TODAY | 4/24/1940 | See Source »

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