Word: bets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cambridge just because his name was Downer. This doesn't make any sense to me. What can be so attractive about the name Downer that people give him scholarships? Especially a feebly growing Downer who is self-admittedly a lazy sort of blighter. Why no Botsford scholarships? I bet erg for erg I can out-lethargy Downer every time out. And if Downer can be a blighter, so can I. I'd challenge him to a blighting contest tomorrow if I thought it would do any good. But I guess If Harvard's going to act like that there...
...travel over the rest of the group. Every single line starting post is a mighty good bet at the moment. Nobody is going to displace Bob Green or Don Daughters at end, Tom Healey or Ken Booth at tackle, or Nick Mellen or Dave Glueck at guard, or Tim Russell at center between now and Saturday--that is, of course, barring injuries...
...hats, stretch them on baseball bats and traipse around the campus like pixies wearing hats two or three feet high. Each spring they raise squirrels in their dresser drawers. A common event at dinner is the passing of the "boss" (dessert) from unlucky to lucky wagerers. Sometimes boys will bet a whole year's boss on an election or whether a master's wife's baby will be a boy or girl. Once they smeared treacle (molasses) on the bell rope and the whole school rapturously watched Principal Hoxton grab it. For their misdeeds the boys...
...economic crisis he needs U. S: comfort and support. He also needs the powerful support of Mexico's left-wingers, who regard President Roosevelt's New Deal and "Good Neighbor" policy as handy shields for their radical designs. To them it still looked like a good bet that Secretary Hull would spare the rod rather than spoil the good neighbors. At week's end, President Cardenas appeared to be casting about for a way to meet Secretary Hull's terms without losing face at home...
...tones, Prosecutor Dewey explained to a blue ribbon jury,* consisting of one Democrat, four Republicans, two Independents, five gentlemen who had not bothered to register, the basic facts of the numbers game. In this simple lottery a player can pick any number from 000 to 999 and place a bet from 1? to $5 or more (most bets are only a few cents) that the same figures will appear in some daily public statistic (e.g., daily bank clearances). Because the odds against the better are 1,000-to-1 and the payoff, minus commissions, is only 540-to-1, numbers...