Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cocos' Chatham Bay, with the radioed permission of Costa Rica's President León Cortés Castro. On his fourth visit* to the peaceful blue waters that lick Cocos' shores the President was still only after fish; still had only meagre fisherman's luck. Back in Panama the natives were swearing by the Roosevelt luck (he arrived on Feb. 18; No. 18 turned up in the lottery); out in the Pacific he was most likely swearing at it. Score reported at week's end: one blue crevally, one amberjack, two small fish...
...business of hatching baby chicks has become such a fine art that it is now possible for hatcherymen to ship their customers broods made up either of all-pullet chicks or all-cockerel chicks. Formerly, the poultry raiser had to take pot luck with his chicks, which were usually divided 50-50 as to sex by Mother Nature...
After this, however, Harvard's luck changed end all of the remaining matches were lost except for an unexpected 3-0 win by Orrin Wilson '42. The margin of victory was closer than the score indicates, however, as in five of the nine matches, five sets were necessary...
...fatalistic and all too lazy. ... If He were really a practical God who would see to it that law and order prevail, He would have said to Himself long since: I have made things hard for the Germans long enough-now they will finally have some good luck. And in a like vein: the British have irritated Me long enough-now they will learn what trouble...
Last year Manhattan newspapers suddenly sprouted sensational stories about a gigantic explosion which, it seemed, had not happened simply because of good luck. Had it happened, every building in New York City and every ship at its docks-not to mention its people-would have vanished without a trace. A crater would have been blown in the earth 100 miles across, and the sea would have poured into this vast pit from southern Connecticut halfway to Philadelphia. Cause of this might-have-been catastrophe: some well-intentioned physicists at Columbia University who were cracking uranium atoms with neutrons as contentedly...