Word: luck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...further discouraging element in the present situation is that the number of upperclassmen to apply has increased from 78 last year to 123. Of these 123 a majority are necessarily Freshmen, which should give some indication of the number of members of 1939 who will find themselves out of luck next fall...
...Mussolini felt that the time was ripe to do a little crowing. The Ethiopian War was going the way it should have gone six months ago. The Imperial Guard of Haile Selassie was smashed. The Negus himself was supposed to be hiding, beardless in the bushes. With a little luck Italian troops should reach Dessye by Easter. Then II Duce could demand peace on his own terms. To the Fascist Grand Council last week he roared...
Robert Graves, onetime Captain in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, edited his fellow-soldier's book, wrote an appreciative introduction. Private Richards was already a veteran of 15 years' service when Graves, just out of public school, joined the battalion as an officer. With better luck than most veterans (Graves calls it a "20,000 to 1 chance"), Richards fought through the entire War without missing a battle or stopping a bullet. He won two decorations (Distinguished Conduct Medal, Military Medal), was known as "a good man," but never applied for a promotion and never got one. After...
With much pushing and more good luck, the Queen Mary finally floated clear...
...apart from this I must apologize for the purely local colour which events at Cambridge (ENG.) seem to have borne during the last week, and for the lack of matter in even so short a letter as this. We will both have better luck next week I hope...