Word: bets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sahara Desert. There would be nothing of interest nearby for the voyagers to explore. The moon's interesting parts are its mountainous areas, and they are mostly so rough that no spaceship could land on them without a disastrous crash. Dr. Wilkins thinks that the best bet would be to land inside one of the moon's great craters. Some of them are rough inside, but others look fairly smooth...
...another group a small fellow with a suede jacket was speculating on the coming debate, "Yeh, I bet those Harvard characters attack McCarthy. They'll never convince me he isn't an all right Joe. Take those lies about his war wound...
Some of his friends disagree, however and have bet him steak dinners that he'll never even finish the run. But the Crimson football star is stoically resigned to ridicule. "They haven't much confidence in me," he says, "but I'll just go out there and run the race...
...Bet known as the site of the post-war international financial conference, Dumbarton Oaks, near Washington, D. C., is the home of the University's Byzantine research...
Money & Prizes. The rarest of the rare ones is You Bet Your Life, a quiz show that is little more than an excuse for Groucho Marx, in his cheerful way, to insult six contestants a night. Other unemployed funnymen have tried in vain to duplicate Groucho's success. Fred Allen just does not seem right on NBC's Judge for Yourself, and Herb Shriner on CBS's Two for the Money is far from rivaling Groucho's hold on his audience. When the wit falters, quiz shows usually try to make up for it by giving...