Word: bets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...amused, the vendors last audible comment was: ". . . and I bet we would have beaten them...
Inflation seems to have hit the student pocketbook and the demand deposits of the Boston Elevated Railway simultaneously yesterday. Parsimony and scrupulous honesty have tangled and honesty probably will prove to be the bet policy for those who try to take the girl friend to Boston for a dime by way of the tandem turnstile at the Hayes-Bickford subway entrance...
...well as for your apt new use of many an old one. I bow humbly to your practiced use of almost an industrial idiom, but, never did I expect you to jump the track when confronted with a commuter electric line like the C.A. & E. I'll bet your description popped circuit breakers all the way from the front platforms of the shiny new C.A. & E. cars clear back to the power house. . . . Don't you agree "chuffed" just isn't the word...
...front of the Argentine-bred Rico Monte, five lengths ahead of the Kentucky Derby winner, Assault. His time-2:42 2 4/5-clipped a fifth of a second off Jamaica's 1⅝-mile track record. Stymie paid off at a handsome 5-to-1. Reason: practically everybody bet on a record-wrecker named Lucky Draw (TIME, Sept. 23), who seemed a cinch to become the "Horse of the Year" after smashing six track records in his last eight races. Lucky Draw finished eighth; the top weight and the distance were too much...
...bet Emil-lion on it," said Hu Flung, "and I take DeLiberti to predict...