Word: bets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sort of conveys the idea that perhaps the society editor was doing the reporting. After I read pp. 52-53 in TIME, I had the feeling that you knew more about producing oil and gas and acidizing than I. So convinced am I that I'll bet a dollar to a slug that you have seen more than one well come in; you know what a hell of a racket three million feet of gas will make coming out of 2" tubing; and just how damn slick a rig floor can get after the first few barrels...
...American League. By last week, the Browns had drawn over 100,000 spectators to their home games, more than watched them all last year. Like many professional baseballers who, because they work half days and half years, find the problem of diversion difficult and pressing, Hornsby was fond of betting on horse races. Last week, sportswriters who knew that a special clause in Hornsby's $20,000-a-year contract bound him not to let his betting interfere with his baseball, soon guessed that a difference of opinion about what "interference" meant had caused the ousting. Their guess...
...General Time Instruments Corp. (bet! Thomas, Big Ben, Westclox) reported ,000 as against $653,000 in the first half...
...everyone in Russia knows that little more than two years ago the Secret Police of Leningrad were put in his charge after the assassination of Dictator Stalin's "Dear Friend Sergei" Kirov (TIME, Dec. 10, 1934 et seq.). In Moscow this week most people were willing to bet that the other nine heroes have also distinguished themselves by deeds the nature of which will be kept quiet so long as the Secret Police can manage...
...Vagabond gasped and nearly swallowed his toothbrush. He was on the trial of something big. Why do they give us money? To help the University as an institution or to help the students? Both I guess, but I'll bet there are a lot of men who would rather help the students directly than create national scholarships or roving professorships, but they can't give any money because they don't know what the University needs from the Undergraduate point of view...