Word: bets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME is stooping pretty low. . . . You can bet my renewal will not mature...
...evening could be explained only by the kind of foul play that Novelist Du Maurier put Svengali up to in Trilby. It was all the fault of a Dutch building contractor who practiced hypnosis and mental telepathy as a hobby, he said. The contractor had laid a bet that he could wreck a concert by tele-hypnosis...
...Kaiser-Frazer stock and double your money," he would have been hooted at. On the New York Curb Exchange, where the stock steadily dropped from its $20.25 offering price to a low of 5 last May, it was considered shrewd to be "short" on Kaiser-Frazer, i.e., to bet it would go lower...
...Best bet by railroad would be "The Federal," a train headed for Washington at 11 o'clock Friday night. It pulls into the Capital at 8:35 o'clock the next morning with both Pullman and coach cars. From that point there will be a train for Charlottesville at 11:11 o'clock...
Last spring newspapers all over the country tagged the Crimson crew as a good bet to go to the Olympics. Tom Bolles' oarsmen set a new world's record in Seattle last July and rated as the best in the United States. At the boathouse almost everyone would like to spend the summer in London, but optimism does not pervade. Frank Cunningham, 1947 Varsity stroke, graduated this June as did Oliver Filley, the Jayvee stroke. Bob Stone, the captain and number four oar, and Stuart Clark, number two oar, were both Seniors last year and Bolles will have to replace...