Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just a little dazed by the good luck, or mere luck, which befell us in the Disbursing Course. Many feel that they slipped quite a way down in the final and others wonder how they can possibly have passed. The final grades, including as they did the results of two closed book "pop" quizzes, were all but impossible to ascertain in advance...
...were set up in type in Philadelphia. A camera crew was on hand to make photo graphic negatives of each page as fast as the last proofs could be corrected. A 39-ounce packet of these films is rushed aboard the first transcontinental plane. And with any kind of luck in the weather, by early Thursday morning our printers in Honolulu should have received the negatives and be at work making the press plates to run off the edition by offset lithography...
OFRRO was lucky in North Africa: if the fighting had continued another month, most of the harvest would have been lost. But luck aside, OFRRO learned that relief and rehabilitation need not be so expensive as they sound...
Plowshares and Bulls. The luck of "Parse" Parisius and colleagues may not hold, but they are sure now that they know how to speed their job under any circumstances. They figure that 500-600 tons of iron and steel shipped to Greece can be hammered into enough plows and hand tools to produce thousands of times this weight in food. Actually they even plan to build up Occupied Europe's decimated animal population through artificial insemination by U.S. bulls and boars...
Peculiar Praying. Winning the people to the healing art was not easy. He claims he finally won his popularity by luck on several cases. He predicted that a certain man would die of tuberculosis in a year and one year later, to the day, he died. One native sowbwa (chief) was already getting well of malaria (though he did not know it) when the doctor came. Dr. Seagrave got "the credit for a marvelous cure...