Word: luck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whether the New Deal stays or goes, it must be admitted that the era when American business was a "free lunch counter" can never return. Business is being played more and more according to rules, imposed from both within and without. The elements of luck and audacity count for less than they did in former times. In such a game a man thoroughly trained in the best tactics of the business world will achieve the highest score...
...admiration society, with ribald but affectionate swipes at the old 'Budget Balancer.' " It ended at Cleveland when the same group "managed to stumble through, and, by looking wise, seemed to be dominating the situation, which was controlled largely by guess and by grab, and, by good dumb luck, the situation always unfolded hours ahead of them." The Republican platform was shaped with Editor White representing Kansas on the Resolutions Committee. When the platform was finished he thanked his fellow members, and, not having talked to the Governor in six hours, promised that Landon would accept it. Ten minutes...
...Edward Kasner of Columbia University announced that he had measured and bisected the "horn angle" - the angle between two curves tangent to each other. The ancient Greeks decided that the horn angle was a zero, could therefore be neither measured nor bisected; Isaac Newton and his successors, having no luck with the problem, were constrained to agree. Dr. Kasner solved the problem with four unreal numbers. When the angle is bisected in his geometrical system, the sum of the halves is greater than the whole. And if one of the curves is considered to be a straight line, each half...
...raining hard when the President's train puffed into Jamestown, N. Dak. next morning. Pulling on a slicker, he set out in an open car for a two-hour look at WPA projects, could not resist gloating over his luck when he returned...
...under rough, tough old Fred Bonfils. Denver is also a city in which Scripps-Howard has had some of the hardest going in its career. Last week the Scripps-Howard high command picked a new proconsul for its Rocky Mountain News, prayed for a change in its journalistic luck...