Word: luckier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loans, Mr. Baird said bravely, were "private and personal investments entered into for profit because [they] carried for the lenders an option to purchase stock in the network. . . . The gains could have been substantial." Baird and Bilofsky were luckier than Groceryman Hartford, who lent Elliott $200,000, got back...
...Escape. But to the Ft. Harrison prisoners Private McGee was just another, if slightly luckier, guy. Cried they: "If McGee got out, why shouldn't we?" When bewhiskered Colonel Peyton C. Winlock, post commander, tried to quell the riot with dignity and authority, someone let fly a boulder which caught him on the back of the head. Dazedly he retired. Fires burst out in two widely separated buildings: a barracks and the infirmary. Four Indianapolis fire companies were summoned to help firemen control a conflagration, spread by a brisk breeze...
...Boston and many another U.S. community where ham for Easter is a tradition, it was a hamless Easter. But thousands of German prisoners of war in the Boston area were luckier. The First Service Command served them ham at Easter Sunday supper...
...great thirst attacked British troops rushing emergency landing strips to completion in the dust of Normandy. Thinking of luckier comrades guzzling in country estaminets and town bistros, the runway builders began to grouse. They wanted beer...
...total for 1941. This year the total climbed to 1,250,000 in the first six months, is still climbing. Agencies come into contact only with women who have run into difficulties in their journeys and need help. They have no estimate of the many thousands who are luckier, or have greater means...