Word: betting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unless the whole world was deceived, the Vichy Government last week squarely and publicly placed its bet on Germany to win World War II. Not only did it yield to Germany, which men in France today must necessarily do, but it also signaled its full intent to collaborate with the Nazis in forming a New European Order. The world over, democratic Frenchmen felt that at last they knew the full extent to which the great French democratic tradition had been abandoned by the men of Vichy...
About five years ago Jack Oakie's gusty, ebullient capacity for drinking with the boys at local bars got him into trouble at the Paramount lot. Studio executives hit on a scheme for bringing him to work bright and shining. They hired men to tail him nightly, bet him $100 he wouldn't be in shape to work the next day. Never a loose man with a dollar, the comedian couldn't refuse the tempting increment. For a while the ruse worked. But when he returned from a European trip with his wife a few years later...
Meanwhile the British, all-out in the manufacture of Typhoons, were also busy with another plane, the Tornado, powered by a 2,000-h.p. Rolls-Royce (the Vulture). Better bet of the two seemed to be the Napier, and last week British representatives in Washington were reputed to be urging OPM to get busy and manufacture Sabres on a big scale. Luckily for the U.S. Army Air Corps, one of its top-flight airmen has seen the Typhoon perform, has had a good look at its engine. British newsmen reported that Major General Henry H. Arnold seemed more impressed...
...break the three-year Tufts wining streak, the Crimson nine will take the diamond this afternoon in the shade of the Soldier's Field Stadium for the first of a home-and-borne, two game series against the Jumbos. The greatly improved home forces are rated a good bet to hobble the Elephants...
...Yale, on the other hand, special committees are subordinate to an organization which provides for extensive investigation into every issue. The Yale Political Union is more than a debating society. When a speaker of national prominence visits Eli you can bet he is sponsored by the Union and not by the Committee to Defend Defense. After he has spoken, both sides are free to question him, and the very fact that audiences and members are of every political color makes for tolerance and understanding. Extremism and the black-and-white world of the political slogan are reduced to a happy...