Word: luckiest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the literary history of his time comes to be written, Carl Sandburg may well be esteemed the luckiest of his Midwestern generation. Vachel Lindsay and Edgar Lee Masters had as great if not greater native talent; even Ben Hecht, whose desk was next to Sandburg's on the Chicago Daily News in the early '20s, seemed a more brilliant, sophisticated writer. Of them all, Sandburg, the immigrant's son, got the surest roothold in authentic U. S. tradition, and got it perhaps by the near accident of digging for the truth about Abraham Lincoln. "That...
Lawrence regards this gift as one of his two luckiest '"breaks." The other was the fact that University of California's Gilbert Lewis was making heavy water, containing heavy hydrogen, soon after its discovery by Columbia's Urey. Lewis let Lawrence have generous samples and Lawrence was the first man to use the heavy hydrogen nuclei-deuterons-as atomic projectiles. They are more effective than protons, easier to handle than alpha particles...
...many a week Japanese, harassed by a succession of Government crises and staggering under the biggest military budget in their history, had looked forward to April 14. That day, Japan's leading soothsayers had declared, would be the luckiest in Japan's year. The nation's bamboo-stick-shufflers, temple oracles and stargazers all agreed on this point...
...rude barracks and eating in a community kitchen. A food-laden boat was hurrying up from Seattle. Alaska Steamship Co., aware that not more than two round trips could be made to Nome before the Arctic winter clamped down, cut rates on food and building material in half. Luckiest break for Nome, however, was a Lomen boat which had just come down the coast with a load of reindeer meat destined for Seattle...
...young Outfielder George Stainback, bought for $75,000 from Los Angeles. The Philadelphia Phillies' Out fielder Henry Oana is the only Hawaiian in the league. The New York Yankees have Floyd Newkirk whose pitching hand, like that of famed Mordecai Brown, onetime Chicago Cub, has only three fingers. Luckiest rookie was Glenn Chapman of the Dodgers who, on the first day of practice at Orlando, hit the first ball ever pitched to him by a big-leaguer for a home-run. Considered ablest last week, when most of their confrères were on their way back to minor...