Word: bets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...safe bet that most of the people who will elect a new Student Council today and next week have a hazy idea about the qualifications of their favorites for the job. The reason is that most of these people also have a hazy idea about just what the Council...
Nobody can be quite sure how all the great splashing began, but the Burmese have an explanation which seems to satisfy them. At the beginning of time, they say, Thi-gya-min made a bet with a rival god-who was so angry that he literally sizzled. The loser was to have his head chopped off. Thi-gya-min won, but his rival's severed head might not be defiled by touching the ground, so seven divine maidens took turns passing it from one to the other. Every time the head reached another daughter, a New Year began. Since...
Best Comedian: Groucho Marx in You Bet Your Life (ABC), "the only man on the air who can work without a script and bat off a brilliant succession of witticisms...
...Newell Boat House, where crews are manufactured, optimism pervades. Everyone you talk to seems to be happy about the development of the freshman crew. They're all ready to bet their bursar's card that the yearling oarsmen will leave Princeton and MIT, whom they race this afternoon, lengths behind them...
...varsity race, the Crimson will definitely be the favorite. In the slides will be two lettermen and six men from last year's exceptional freshman boat. This combination seems a sure bet to beat the Engineers, whose laboratory hours take a big cut out of practice time...