Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clothing. In one such canoe was what appeared to be an entire family, the mother of which was sitting in the stern, paying no attention to the bartering going on, but rather being apparently deeply engrossed in a copy of TIME. I tried to attract her attention with no luck as she was apparently thoroughly enjoying what she was reading...
...took an inspection party to Europe last month, he went along. In Italy he headed for the headquarters of the 10th Mountain Division-its assistant commander had just been wounded. He got the job, went happily back into action at the head of a combat team. But his fabulous luck had only eight days to run. Last week, shortly before German resistance crumpled, Bill Darby was killed by a German 88-mm. shell...
Cash In. So Wagner and Glore, who hated to see the corporation's cash in stocks & bonds instead of sparking new business, tried their luck on Chicago real estate, began to dabble in Texas gas & oil. They saw a fortune to be made in waste natural gas. Texas oil wells within ten miles of the present pipeline alone were blowing it off at the fantastic rate of 200,000,000 cubic feet a day because there was nothing better to do with...
Life Begins at 85. From then until 1932, Henry Lytton's luck was all good. He and his manager-son, George, had sold their stores to Fashion Park Associates, Inc. in 1929 for stock then worth $7,000,000, and the prospect ahead was for rest at last. But by 1932, Fashion Park had overexpanded, and in reorganization Henry & Son got their own stores back. Then George died. At 87, Henry Lytton went back to work...
There are quite a few things wrong with this picture-some of them basic. The average lonely soldier in New York doesn't have the good luck to pick up Judy Garland, or true love, or anything remotely resembling either. But it could be justly argued that such things do occasionally happen-and ought to happen more often. Once you accept the basic premise, however, there are still drawbacks. The young lovers wouldn't be likely to spend the night so whimsically, to lose each other so casually in the subway, to find each other if they...