Word: bets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remaining longer runs, Coach Farrell's men proved completely superior to the southerners. In the 880 yards run, Watters completely outgeneraled Irvine, Virginia's best bet in the half mile, and so wore out the tall southerner with his constant passing and repassing, that he tied up completely, in the last stretch and dropped back to third place at the finish behind Watters and Kobes of Harvard...
...pointed out by Mr. New, this would probably put parcels post out of business. There are such things as express companies. Prominent business men have frequently said that if they could run the Post Office as a private enterprise they could increase service, pay bet- ter wages, reduce letter postage to 1?, make millions...
...goes to Southampton, its port of departure. While there, he visits the room in the Reindeer Hotel, where he said goodby to Blacky I twenty years before. He plays the old music box, which she was so fond of, and pays old George five pounds, the result of a bet that Ango would never return to Southampton. A few minutes after he leaves the hotel, the audience hears the steamship whistle and knows that Waverly Ango is aboard, atoning for his past indiscretions by sailing straighter than he ever sailed before...
...undergraduate must remain American, unqualified. One who speaks and speaks only the French of "Stratford atte Bowe", the German of Nolen's at a bet...
...went a-glimmering last night when Coach Gaw told a CRIMSON reporter that the Tiger ace has fully recovered from the injury which he received on his knee-cap. He will play for the most part on the defense, but the Princeton mentor also expects to use his best bet in the forward line, either at left wing or center. The game is called...