Word: bets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what happens next. Last week, the Committee on Educational Policy made such an admission indirectly, when it set up Donald C. McKay's special committee on Geography. No one can predict what this group will suggest, nor what will happen to its recommendations, but it's a pretty good bet that something will be done to patch up last year's hasty hatcheting of a vital field...
...jayvees look like a good bet in their preliminary race at 5 p.m., since they also are undefeated, while their victims have gone on to beat today's opposition...
...boxing room and then started out the spring practice as a tackle. The sudden dearth, however, of right ends, plus Ravreby height and speed caused the switch to end, and here he will probably remain this fall. If he continues to improve, Fred Ravreby is the best bet among the freshmen to make the 1949 football squad...
Fred W. ("Lucky") Hooper watched' quietly as a high-heeled man from Texas paced the paddock at Florida's Tropical Park one day last winter. "I'll bet twenty-five on the quarter-horse," barked the Texan. A passerby peeled two tens and a five from his roll and offered to take the bet. "Put that chicken feed back in your pocket," roared the Texan. "I mean twenty-five thousand...
...Pipes of Pan, as a contemporary example of the Greek glorification of the body. Picasso's heavy-limbed athletes had the same solidity as sculpture, and for all their blank faces and lumpish hands & feet they seemed to glow with life and health. It was a safe bet that artists a century from now would still be learning from the Greeks...