Word: bets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...picture is over? You can bet your week's wampum it isn't. That Oregon trail was 2,000 miles long, and Realist Disney seems determined to make the moviegoer jolt, bolt or Colt his way over every dad-burned mile...
...Last week the best bet still was that O'Connor's foundation staff would move into mental health...
...when one autumn he wagered four departing British guests that they could stroll around St. Moritz in midwinter without overcoats. That winter the four struggled upland through the snow, arrived in St. Moritz to find the sun so warm that Johannes was waiting in his shirtsleeves. He won his bet. Next winter the four came back with friends, and the town was on its way to fame as a winter resort. Johannes enlarged the Kulm to accommodate 400 guests, furnished it with fine paintings and sculptures, and in 1880 installed the first electric lights in Switzerland...
...bet Boris Chaliapin 100 to 1 that he cannot put up three rifles the way he did on TIME'S Nov. 26 cover...
...fourth straight year (and fourth time in thoroughbred racing), U.S. horse-players bet more than $2 billion. Of the $2,231,528,140 total wagered at pari-mutuel windows in the 24 states where on-course betting is legal, the states themselves took a $164,418,294 bite. Most voracious were the New York State tax collectors, who swallowed $43,177,361, more than one-quarter of the national tax total...