Search results for "Luck" - New World Encyclopedia
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- have, of course, no real effect upon one's luck or upon a ball half way down an alley, just as in the present case the food would appear as often ...20 KB (3,039 words) - 05:20, 26 August 2023
- him to kill her as well. It is through sheer blind luck he is able to escape detection. After falling ill with fever and lying bedridden for days ...21 KB (3,343 words) - 06:23, 11 January 2024
- cases of Philip Marlowe and other down-on-their-luck private detectives (e.g. John Dalmas, Steve Grayce) or good samaritans (e.g. Mr Carmady). The ...19 KB (2,874 words) - 01:37, 8 December 2022
- the methods undertaken, the weather and even luck play a vital role in what we will catch. Additionally, the composition of history is inevitably ...23 KB (3,451 words) - 00:26, 25 March 2024
- which he extricates himself by aplomb and good luck. A final hair-raising threat of exposure comes in the last scene, through the well-meaning frankness ...21 KB (3,484 words) - 15:19, 14 May 2023
- fortune cookies) is closely related to that of luck, good or bad, hence to that of destiny. Like destiny, fortune implies that there is an “invisible ...22 KB (3,568 words) - 00:43, 25 March 2024
- by the incident, as well as the song "The Luck Of The Irish," which dealt more with the Irish conflict in general. (Lennon was of Irish ...21 KB (3,395 words) - 18:14, 31 October 2023
- mind for the job. Next time I'll have better luck, and I'll get a job soon." Beck also identified a number of other cognitive distortions ...25 KB (3,498 words) - 17:04, 20 March 2024
- of a similar modest social status to try their luck in Africa. He epitomized a new type of here, Kryza writes of a new type of European hero, the ...19 KB (3,147 words) - 18:22, 10 November 2022
- * Brackman, Arnold C. The Luck of Nineveh: Archaeology's Great Adventure. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1978. ISBN 9780070070301. * Chandler, Tertius ...21 KB (3,258 words) - 09:49, 11 March 2023
- together, and then they will accuse their own ill-luck and not the rulers.[http://studymore.org.uk/xpla5.htm Chapter 5: On matrimony and philosophy] Plato ...23 KB (3,360 words) - 15:33, 10 December 2023
- often nocturnal nature) or as agents of good luck, fertility, and rain. Shamans, the spiritual leaders in the religion of Shamanism, have used them ...22 KB (3,306 words) - 12:33, 9 January 2023
- *Dropping a pair of chopsticks is believed to bring bad luck. *When a diner has finished eating, he or she places the chopsticks across the bowl ...24 KB (3,847 words) - 17:19, 10 December 2023
- thrown into a burning flame, it will give good luck, and that if a rose bush were pruned on St. John's Eve, it would be guaranteed to bloom in ...22 KB (3,504 words) - 21:40, 15 August 2022
- Division. At dawn, the Battle Group von Luck of the 21st Panzer Division ... # von Luck, Hans. Panzer Commander: The Memoirs of Colonel Hans von ...68 KB (10,141 words) - 10:18, 22 September 2023
- Critics say that Menzies' success was mainly due to the good luck of the long post-war boom and his manipulation of the anti-communist fears ...23 KB (3,472 words) - 01:43, 16 December 2022
- to-hear-george-winston-good-luck/?-Good-luck- "Want to hear George Winston? Good luck"] The Durango Herald (December 24, 2015). Retrieved ...27 KB (3,773 words) - 15:07, 21 May 2024
- voltage-controlled filter. Then, by a stroke of luck, Moog was invited that September to the AES Convention in New York City, where he presented a paper ...23 KB (3,345 words) - 16:02, 13 February 2024
- *"Landing in Luck" (1919) *"The Hill" (1922) *"New Orleans" *"Mirrors of Chartres Street" (1925) ...20 KB (3,045 words) - 12:09, 8 May 2023
- and the workmen of the country towns who had the luck to see them. The "Red Cossack" was quite different. As Burov put it with deep ...26 KB (3,556 words) - 16:42, 28 July 2023
