Word: betting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ambulance driver! In other words, I rattle round pitch dark streets in a three-ton furniture pantechnicon. God help my poor bloody patients. I bet I cause more casualties than I succour...
...which would make it unwise for Britain to send out anything less than a Hood, Repulse or Renown, battle cruisers which could shoot Deutschland to bits with 15-inch guns at 25,000 yards, without fear of the German's eleven-inch reply. Britain's next best bet would be heavy cruisers of the "London" class, but Deutschland could penetrate a "London's" armor at 15,000 yards, whereas "London" would have to get within 8,000 yards to use her eight-inchers effectively...
...months ago a ham show opened in Chicago. Last week it was still running there. It had become a civic institution. It had played to 150,000 people and grossed over $250,000. The theatre was sold out three weeks in advance, and it was a good bet that, before it was through, the show would break all records for Chicago business...
Eugene S. Buder '38, 1L, who was scheduled to make a bicycle dash to Princeton to win a bet, beginning at 12:01 this morning, last night called his trip off after hearing of Wheeler's death. "I intended to do it as a sporting venture," he said, "and now all the sport has gone...
...Littick contract with U. P. is not exclusive-U. P. is still free to sign with the News if it wishes. But if it did, the Litticks would obviously be annoyed-and to U. P., as to I. N. S., the Littick papers are the safest bet. According to U. P., the terms Earl Jones's Beach offered were "unreasonable," therefore not acceptable to the home office. Now Earl Jones threatens to sue, in the hope that he can compel U. P. to give him the wire for which he feels that he contracted. Meanwhile the Litticks are using...