Word: bets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...again Mahan or King would get loose only to be tackled by Click. Harvard was lucky to win 10 to 6. Yale also managed to beat this Princeton team coached by "Speedy" Rush but when a Yale man started to boast to Rush about the great Yale victory Rush bet the overconfident Eli that Harvard would beat Yale by 40 points. The score...
...life in the U. S. will be 61 years; in 1940, 65; in 1950, 69; in 1960, 72; in 1970, 75; in 1980, 78; in 1990, 80; in 2000, 82; and in 2100, 94. At present the average length of life is 58 years. Professor Fisher offered to bet $10 to $1 on the accuracy of his prognosis. No one covered...
...sure that Harvard will just trample on Princeton and the other football teams after beating Dartmouth," said Gertrude Ederle in an interview with a CRIMSON "reporter yesterday." "You know I won a bet from Helen Wainwright on the Dartmouth game. I felt that Harvard was bound to win, just because it wasn't the newspaper favorite...
...surprised, returned the youth he's smart un, ho is, J bet he could tell y'u what the Atlantic Ocean...
...eyes out? Nothing, or even less. For when I went to the girl, pardon the sentiment, of my dreams, did she fall on my neck and say, "Joe, you're human after all." Did she, I repeat? She did not. She said, "You poor fish, you made me bet my bottom dollar and several next to the bottom dollars against Boston college. I thought you knew something about football." So here's the end of Joe Forecast's little romance. Once more, and this time permanently, he will be a man's man and an accurate forecaster...