Word: bets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trouble with that clock," Mr. Walford concluded, "is that its everybody's business. You wouldn't think it would make much difference if it's half a minute or a few seconds off, but if it cuts off a professor's lecture, you can bet I hear from it. Sometimes I get so discouraged that rd like to give someone else a chance to try to keep it right...
...Peace Plan; numerous other peace plans including that of the Christian Science Monitor; the pledge of the student delegates at Indianapolis not to take part in any future wars--with all these intellectual microbes in the air at once it is a fair bet that some people will catch the disease of pacifism. At least many become inspired with the desire to argue the question, and everything points to the conclusion that not a few demand some guarantee for permanent peace...
With the dying wiggle of the final snake dance, football becomes largely a matter of theoretical bitterness. During the season one may bet on one's theories; now it is only possible to sputter. Those whose business it is to sputter in print have drawn up the following list of sectional champions...
...international cup arranged for Longchamps (Paris) next May 3. The purse is 1,000,000 francs; but since that is only $60,000 in American money, Pierre Wertheimer, owner of the outstanding French three-year-old, Epinard, will come to America next month to make a side bet with Owner Sinclair, so that the latter may feel it to be worth his while to send Zev over the water. Other countries in the race will be Britain, Spain, Italy, Belgium, France...
...lucky gambler bet 30 ($1.70) on the first race at the Maisons-Lafitte track on Nov. 6, picking the winner of that and of the other five races, betting his accumulated winnings each time, he would have won 42,425,000,000 francs - more the entire banknote circulation France. The odds against the win ning horses were...