Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even in defeat, it looked as if luck might come to the rescue of the spunky Crimson. The two teams held their breaths as the officials debated a false start by Princeton in the decisive relay. Unlike the first event, however, the call went in the Tiger favor and for Harvard the dreams were over...
...Success in dealing with unknown ciphers is measured by these four things in the order named: perseverance, careful methods of analysis, intuition, luck. The ability at least to read the language of the original text is very desirable but not essential." Such is the opening sentence of Parker Hitt's Manual for the Solution of Military Ciphers...
...recently were reclassified I-A and subject to induction after turning in their draft cards at an anti-war demonstration. The two talked to deans and faculty members, who patted them on the back but told them there was nothing the University could do about it all but Good Luck. The Dunster House Senior Common Room lent its sympathy in a weak-kneed petition, defying a rule against such pronouncements. But it meant little. Two Harvard students may well go to jail for their political and moral beliefs while the University, in true laissez-faire fashion, invites the Navv...
During the past year, of course, it took bad judgment, bad timing and bad luck to lose money in the market. The Dow-Jones industrial average of 30 basic blue chips rose 15% in 1967, but the Dow is much too narrow a gauge. Outmoded and inadequate, it does not come close to measuring the total market or its most dynamic companies, even though it has an exaggerated influence over the market's mood. It closed last week at 864-just about where it was three years ago. The better, broader Standard & Poor index...
...Gees' brand of straight-forward sentimentality is winning a surprising response from listeners who are either too young or too bored to investigate the rolling, stoned Beatles' milieu. The older boys smoke cigarettes, try a little wine now and then, nothing more. With a bit of luck, it might become a trend...