Word: bets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bill and Alben don't know what they are talking about," snorted the Vice President. "Tell you what, Nate. I'll bet you $100 we don't adjourn by May 10, another hundred we don't adjourn by May 20, another on June 1, another on June 10. And just to give you $100, I'll bet on June...
Correspondent Robertson said he didn't have that much money, but he would bet $1 on each date. They placed their bets in an envelope, gave it to a Garner secretary to hold. Robertson, now a pressagent for the Consumers Council of the Bituminous Coal Commission, was last week hoping (see above) to salvage...
...liked in this course. Only the first half of 9 and of 17 will be gives this year. Government 36 is a second half course covering a combination of the two previously mentioned courses. The material given was poor and the course easy. Government 17 is far the best bet of these three, and is very useful...
...horses, was so elated that he pranced like one of his colts, swung his binoculars above his head in circles, pumped the hand of Jockey Arcaro again & again. Not only had Owner Woolf won the $47,000 first-place money and a $5,000 gold cup, but he had bet heavily and forehandedly on his Missouri colt-whose sire he had picked up for $500. Placing substantial wagers in the winter books (as high as 20-to-1) and in the parimutuels at Churchill Downs as well. Owner Woolf was reported to have cleaned up $150,000-the biggest killing...
Sandwiched in with the Varsity meet are the Freshman events which will be hotly contested. No sure bet are Coach Bill Neufeld's this year, for the Yale Freshmen have the odds. The Crimson should take perhaps more than its share of first places, but it is weak in second and third place supporters. Captain Rolla Campbell is hooting for a record half mild under 1:58, and Bob Partlow will try for similar laurels in the high jump and broad jump...