Word: bets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Furthermore, only history will prove who is right and who wrong, President Roosevelt or Senator Glass; but if Ancel Baird would like to make a little bet of $1,000, TIME to hold the money and decide, the money to go to any worthy charity, I will take the same side as Senator Glass...
Neither alternative can be at all attractive to the Chancellor; choosing the first will call down upon him the wrath of the industrialists who backed him as a safe bet to preserve their property; and it will moreover so burden the state's budget that it may force a cut in other expenditures dear to a demagogue's heart. The second choice will involve an admission, tacit or articulate, that he cannot accomplish what he set out to do, not even within a reasonable distance of success. I have no doubt that this bit of brazenness on Hitler's part...
...words had been done in 69 hr. 17 min., which Preacher Dake declared a record. (In Cincinnati the Old & New Testament were read synchronously in 16 hr. 40 min. -TIME, March 27.) Challenging any church to put up a team he said: "I'll even lay a side bet on our readers...
...What did a sporting churchman of Zion City, Ill. offer to bet even money...
...composed mostly of Sophomores, and has not yet taken one League game out of three starts, as well as dropping most of its other contests. If they take the Indians into camp tonight, and in practice they show enough power to do so, it is almost a sure bet that they will also win the third game of the series and then ride rough-shod over Yale. The Crimson ice-men possess a potential power which, once it begins to click, will easily shove the Green out on the short end of the score...