Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Luck & Good. Queen Wilhelmina's choice of a consort was Henry Wladimir, youngest son of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Henry was a taxidermist's dream of a German princeling, a beady-eyed, mean-spirited fellow, of whom the best that can be said is that he learned his place (considerably below the throne) and that, after eight years of marriage, he fathered Princess Juliana...
...Jolly good luck to you," shrilled the old ladies as the parsons departed...
Said the committee: "Salaries have been determined by private treaty rather than in accordance with any recognizable plan. Under such a system, it is inevitable that the bargaining power of the individual (by no means a sure gauge of his value to the university), favoritism, brass and sheer luck would be important factors in salary determination...
...next birthday and I've never had a family. . . . I've tried radishes, cabbage, celery leaves, carrot tops, and with no luck. . . . Do you suppose a change of climate would help...
...small manufacturers, whose production is most needed, would rather take their chances on the open market, where speed and ingenuity pay off. When we need spare parts, we need them at once and not at the end of a five-week exchange of correspondence with Washington. We have better luck with junk yards than priorities...