Word: luck
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...prominent U. S. airmen only one publicly questioned the value of the Coste flight. Said Capt. Frank Monroe Hawks: "It was a great display of nerve but a foolish thing to do. . . . Though it was magnificently courageous, flights across the ocean in landships prove nothing except nerve and luck. When one is made in a seaplane, then something will have been accomplished...
...newsmen might well have preferred to trust to luck and hope that the Brattvaag's radio was deaf to all. For at the request of the Swedish Government, Norwegian officials were flashing frantic orders to Dr. Horn and the Brattvaag's crew to permit no "unauthorized person" aboard the sealer, to maintain strict secrecy regarding the story, especially the diary, and to proceed immediately to a point between Tromso and Vardo...
...Luck, his pleasant appearance and his expertness in diseases of the stomach kept young Mr. Dawson from the bowler hat and satchel of the obscure English doctor. Minnie Ethel Yarrow, youngest daughter of Sir Alfred Fernandez Yarrow, the potent shipbuilder, was a chronic invalid. A doctor was always at her side. One day the regular man suddenly became ill. Dr. Dawson was handy, was summoned. He cured the girl. They fell in love, married...
...Coats legend: Once, after a night's play in a Paris circle (gaming club) Gambler Coats broke the bank, tipped the barmaid who had wished him luck a round half million francs...
...find the full answer to the desert question, or any other question, given by the winner-freckle-faced, pompadoured Arthur Olney Williams, Jr., 17, of East Providence, R. I. As soon as his victory was announced his 48 competitors lifted him on their shoulders, cheered "One, two-good luck to you, Williams!" Winner Williams announced that he would go to M. I. T. If he had not won the scholarship, he said, he would have worked his way through his hometown institution, Brown. His father is chief clerk in the Provident Gas Co., a descendant of Roger Williams, founder...