Word: luck
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...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...
...members from the class of 1924 reported at the meeting, which was addressed first by Captain L. B. McCagg Jr., '22, who outlined the work which is planned for the fall season. Coach William Haines, who spoke afterwards gave a short talk in which he wished the Freshmen good luck in their coming season. Dr. H. R. Howe Jr., '04 the last speaker, gave the men a talk on the great necessity for obeying the orders of the coaches, of discipline, and of an enthusiasm to work hard...