Word: lucked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...success. Stevens was the first to score for 1924, and his basket was followed by an avalanche of shots, with very clever passing between Captain Lewis Gordon, J. H. Sipp and D. H. Stevens. Several times the school boys took the ball down the floor but they had little luck shooting. The half ended with the yearlings leading...
...person can approach such a laborer in the right way, he will find that he is very much like the average person. In my experience, I have found that the hard luck story was the opening wedge. As soon as I told an ignorant worker that I had failed to make good as an insurance agent during the war and had been forced to try to earn a living with my hands, all his suspicions would disappear and he would immediately tell me a hard luck story either about himself or a friend, and would accept me as an equal...
...only this," comments Webb, "but the game has not improved as a sport wherein fundamentals have held their own against 'breaks' and outright luck, and it is quite natural that the forward pass should stand the blame...
Every man should read Coach Knox's article; it shows what few of us know: that Luck was breaking consistently with the Princeton team. On the strength of this fact and the memory of the game in the Stadium two weeks ago, only the most unthinking of Harvard men can be confident...
Virginia, like Centre last week, made little or no attempt to take the offensive on Humphrey's beautifully timed high spirals under which both ends and Lockwood, in almost every case, were ready to down the receiver in his tracks. It was the luck element that penalized. their faulty handling of punts by having them roll outside inside the five-yard zone...