Word: bets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stalin never saw the inside of a Jesuit Seminary. In fact, TIME, I'll bet that Joe has never seen a Jesuit...
...Erector Set. Although dispatches did not identify the type of bridge, it was a safe bet that it was a Bailey-a British invention which has carried Allied armies across the river-seamed face of Europe and is a main reliance in their coming big battle: the spanning of the Rhine. Field Marshal Montgomery calls the Bailey bridge "quite the best thing in its line we have ever had." The bridge, at once simple and ingenious, was first sketched on the back of an envelope in 1940 by a tweedy British civil engineer named Donald Colman Bailey...
...know what your excuse is for running that awful stuff. . . . You say that is free speech. . . . Well, I'll bet you if you knew what your readers really think of Pegler, you'd drop him like a hot stove lid. If you would put the matter to a vote...
Geneva, now run for the Government by Big Steel, is fondly regarded by Westerners as the best bet to bring them cheap postwar steel, let them grow into their industrial long pants. But until Big Steel broke its toplofty silence, no one was willing to gamble on the prospects of Geneva doing...
...good night, as much as two million dollars is bet on U.S. college basketball. In New York City alone, half a million-mostly in $50 to $500 bets-changes hands. A single Chicago betting spot handles about $100,000 worth of business a night...