Word: bets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lecturer said he would make a bet that the same perfume on the skins of three different women would smell differently...
Calmly confident, Army's cadets bet that their wonder team would collect a touchdown in four plays. Said Navy's grim Coach Oscar Hagberg: "Army can't call its shots against us. We're not that bad." To find out, President Truman and 102,000 other fans last week jammed Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium...
...weren't entirely sure just what would happen. A few suspected that the nuclear chain reaction might spread from the bomb's uranium, flash around the world in the air and burn every living thing to a crisp. One enthusiastic physicist, famed Enrico Fermi, casually offered to bet his associates 10-to-1 that it would. He got no takers...
...Boston job would require all his skill and a generous share of Braves President Lou Perini's fat bankroll. It was a good bet that Southworth would soon corral, at a fancy price, some of the players who had hustled for him in St. Louis. It was equally likely that he would go on working wonders like his 1945 Card trick with Pitcher Charlie Barrett. Barrett, a no-count Brave tossed into the $50,000 deal for Mort Cooper, won 21 games for St. Louis under Southworth's persuasive handling...
...reached a point where even Hollywood thought it worth satirizing (see cut). Moreover, returning G.I.s are buying heavily scented colognes without a snigger. They have been well educated. Said one salesgirl: "From all the stuff we've mailed to servicemen overseas, I'll bet that jungle smelled awful nice...