Word: bets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hopes that some heavy tackle now to the squad "will pan out later" or some tolerable looking passer "will complete a few in actual combat." This year the optimism is not strained. While leveller heads will insist that every team in the country is loaded, that the best bet on nine out of any tea games this fall will be even money, and that the Crimson in particular may, well be outweighed by every eleven it faces, even Western Maryland and Dartmouth, the average follower of Dick Harlow's 1947 forces is bound to succumb to a feeling of exuberant...
...bright light in the new ora of Crimson athletics is Tom Bolles' crew, which rose last spring from its previous informal status to establish itself as one of the top boats in the country and a good bet for the 1948 Olympics...
...special election on Nov. 4 to fill the U.S. Senate seat of the late Theodore G. Bilbo (TIME, Sept. 1) was shaping up last week as a mighty free-for-all. Four candidates had already entered the race, and several more were in the offing. The best early bet to win seemed to be shrill, old Congressman John E. Rankin, whose friends claim that he can "out-Bilbo Bilbo...
...tell what direction they come from. His next step will be a larger triangle flanked by other instruments hundreds of miles from St. Louis. This attempt to match the atmospheric vibrations to changes in the weather may produce a new and valuable method of weather forecasting (the Navy has bet its $25,000 on the possibility that it will). Father Macelwane, though hopeful, is as cautious about his work as any other scientist: "We don't know what the vibrations are or what causes them. We just know they are present...
Schroeder likes to pull on a pipe; Kramer doesn't smoke. Big Jake's one vice is betting: he will bet anybody on anything. He once won $20 from friends who bet he couldn't down a jigger of beer a minute for 80 minutes. He likes people, poker, bow ties, Joe DiMaggio, and shop talk like "that day at Rye when big Frank Shields grabbed Bitsy Grant by the belt and held him out a second-story window...