Word: bets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were putting up hay on Cal Shinn's farm. Among the six was a swashbuckling braggart who offered to bet five dollars that he could stack all the hay that the other five of us could pitch to him. We took the bet, prorating it at a dollar apiece. We laid the base for a stack and began pitching in dead earnest. The man on the stack managed to keep his head above hay for a while, but before long he was up to his neck in hay that he could not handle. He managed to extricate himself from...
...trying to cheat himself at solitaire." But last Saturday he made no shifts; it was Coach Stevens of Harvard who had to rearrange his boat when Barton, No. 3, sprained three vertebrae in his neck in a boathouse accident. Harvard men were not so ready to bet on their crew after that, and indeed their caution seemed justified. The Princeton crew took the lead from the start and, moving beautifully over a lake like a wafer of aluminum, stood a length and a half ahead at the mile mark. The Harvard stroke got faster, the Harvard shell moved up, half...
Retort. Chancellor Churchill defended himself roundly: "Betting is certainly an optional luxury and therefore a fit object for taxation. ... It is estimated that £6,000,000 per year may be derived from this source. . . . The proposed tax does not alter the legality of betting. . . . Credit and racecourse betting are legal, while street betting is illegal?although in practice everyone can bet with impunity. In that sense, there is one law for the rich and another for the poor. . . . The proposed tax is but a recognition of a condition of so-called vice from which the Exchequer has already received...
...paraphernalia of ouija boards, trumpets, dark cabinets, materializations, automatic writings and spirit photographs-the laying on of hands, deep breathings, vegetarianism, fastings, formulae of monotonous sayings of the genre of Coue's, with its smug 'Every day in every way I am getting better and bet-ter'-these are those rivers and tributaries that feed the encroaching sea of modern occultism. It is the business of the church to take her stand upon the sayings of the Master to the effect that 'an evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign'; that 'the kingdom...
Pappas is the Tiger's best bet in the 100 but he seems slated to follow Miller to the tape if the latter continues to improve on the form he has shown' so far this year. If Coach Farrell decides to enter Miller in the 220 also the big Crimson sprinter ought to show his heels to the field again. If not Lundell and Rockwell will be out in front fighting for first honors...