Word: luckiest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Surprisingly few of Germany's persecuted German-Jewish savants are known to have received invitations to teach or work in other countries. Dr. Einstein is among the luckiest. The chair of mathematics in the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, which he will assume this autumn, gives him security. In addition he holds posts in the University of Madrid and the Sorbonne...
Secretary Harte reached retirement age in 1925 but stayed on the job until 1930, saw his building completed. As his succes sor the Y. M. C. A. chose "the luckiest man in the War." Lieut. Waldo Huntley Heinrichs. A onetime Y. M. C. A. man in Honolulu and in India, Lieut. Heinrichs went from theological seminary into avia tion. He saw Lieut. Quentin Roosevelt shot down in France, had three escapes from death in mid-air himself. In the Battle of St. Mihiel he fell 3,000 ft., got off with ten wounds. He won a Croix de Guerre with...
Merola is no Toscanini but he is probably the world's nerviest, luckiest conductor. Some years ago he gave open-air opera at Stanford Stadium, lost his Italian backers a tidy sum. But at just the right time each evening a full moon rose...
...reddish face. He has been world champion three times, won many an international tournament with his artful sidearm stroke. Long-nosed Albert Poensgen, a onetime jurist and now a well-paid employe in Berlin's Ministry of Finance, is considered by his confreres to be the luckiest player in the world as well as one of the best. At 51 he has been playing in international tournaments for 21 years, won the world championship nine times. Last week the three best players in the world, and six others who thought they might be, went to Manhattan to play each...
Either the world's luckiest man or one of the smartest, Henry Ford announced his new cars the day the Glass-Steagill bill came out of the White House...