Word: bets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they return with a victory over either Queens, whom they meet at Kingston tonight, or ever Toronto whom they face Saturday. Coach Dick Vaughan of Princeton, jubilant over Wednesday night's tie, didn't respect the Crimson's chances much after the game when he said, "I'll bet my bottom dollar Harvard gets scalped twice up there...
When a person wants to bet in a pool he writes the promoter for the week's selection. He usually has a choice of six or seven different combinations, may bet anything from a penny to a pound. There are three cardinal requisites for an "investor" (the word bettor is shunned): He or she must be over 21, must not "invest" with cash, must never visit the promoter's premises. To circumvent England's Betting & Lotteries Act, all transactions are on credit, cash is sent the following week. If an investor fails to follow up with cash...
...batch of tickets was poked back through the window and an irate customer demanded that he be given what he had asked for-five tickets on No. 6, not No. 5. Because the tickets had been punched out and recorded, Lonnie Gray was thus stuck with a $50 bet on a rank outsider that no one else seemed to want. And, because he had to get ready for the next race, he was not even going to see Bright Mark run. If Bright Mark had actually lost, he would not only have done Lonnie out of a week...
...Conant said that those students now working their way through college are of the highest type and added, "we can afford to bet heavily on them by paying all their expenses of education." The Harvard president enunciated the doctrine upon which education will probably be carried on in the future. At least his suggestion seems to be the most democratic method yet proposed. --Syracuse Daily Orange...
...Buvoli Mussolini, 23; their first child, a son, Guido; in Rome. Nine days before, Countess Edda Mussolini Ciano had given II Duce another grandson; five weeks before, Sylvia De Rosa Mussolini, Vittorio's cousin Vito's wife, had borne a son, Arnaldo, won a 1,000-lira bet from Orsola by having her baby first...