Word: bets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...football team. Information about the team that crumbled in the second half of last year's campaign has been non-existent. The facts alone, such as the graduation of Adolph "Beep-beep" Bellizeare and a number of other Quaker standouts, would seem to make the Philadelphians a losing bet in this year's race...
Bruce and his father didn't see too much of Cleaver after he left that night in August, although they ran into his wife once and were startled to see her face covered by a big butterfly-wing bandage. "I bet Cleaver hit her," Bruce said later. That made Cleaver an even more confusing figure: rapist, convict, talented author, a man seeking to return to the country he denounced, a man promoting a pair of pants to give a new revelation to our sexuality...
...Soccer player Jose Violante also gives Brown the best kicking game in the Ivies. Brown has suffered through mediocrity for the last 15 years, but the end of 1-8 and 0-9 seasons is at hand. From what they showed last year, the Bruins look like the best bet to win the Ivy title, its first ever...
...these presidential excursions is almost unmeasurable in real political terms. It was calculated that when Richard Nixon ran for office in 1968 he saw about 1.5 million people in rallies and along parade streets. When that figure is modified to allow for children and nonvoters, it is a good bet that any candidate or President can come into the real line of sight of only a tiny fraction of the voters...
...hard to estimate the actual meaning of the 2.5 to 1 ratio, simply because it's impossible to tell what things would be like if the ratio were equal. But it's a safe bet to attribute the dismal history of women's organizations at Harvard in large part to the fact that women have felt too isolated and scattered to develop much of a sense of solidarity. Women in the Yard and the River Houses have complained that it's hard for them to simply meet other women and make friends, and women's groups in the Houses have...