Word: bets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have always bet on you, but now I'm hurt...
...Democrats favor the four-year term-but not with leap-year elections. -Last March, the U. S. Supreme Court declared such courts unconstitutional. The referendum would have made such courts constitutional in Ohio. *Machines in which betters place their money on their chosen horses, receiving tickets in return. The betting odds of each race are figured by the machines in ratio to the total amount bet on each horse and winners cash in their tickets at these odds, which are not announced until after each race. The machines also figure out a percentage for their operators, and for the State...
Bearing this in mind, the Forecast fortune has been staked on the issue of today's contest. He has bet that is Yale wins, it will be by less that a touchdown margin. Having scouted the Blue last week, I am enough impressed with their strength to concede them the bare possibility of a victory by a goal; but I refuse absolutely to grant them the superiority of a touchdown. If I'm wrong, you are all invited to a little party in Section 32, Row PP, right after the game. There will be refreshment's Joe Forecast will...
These are among others the "lorgnettes" through which Yale peers foggily at Harvard. We listen to jokes in which the protagonists are Harvard men, laugh, do not seek to reason why so-and-so went there kid so-and-so for having gone there, bet on the football game, the New London classic event, win, lose, forget all about it. I should expect to find neatly pressed clothing, red neckties, large wardrobes, pocket books and imaginations prevalent among the undergraduate body. I should realize, having quit the laissez-faire atmosphere of Yale for the savoir-faire atmosphere of Harvard...
Cigar. At Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., Prof. Miller D. Steever, bet a "good cigar" that Roland S. Finley, senior student, could not get a job within 24 hours because "it was hard even for a man willing to work to get a job." This was to prove that unemployment was widespread in the U. S., "a serious indictment of our social organization...