Word: betting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went out for the Minnesota team in 1911. For 18 years before he succeeded Amos Alonzo Stagg at Chicago, he coached football at Tulane and Loyola of the South, put both colleges on the football map. Last winter, when Stanford asked him to come coach, Clark Shaughnessy said "You bet...
...editorial ill-breeding of the Crimson has for years genuinely embarrassed Harvard men everywhere. I am willing to bet that most of us sharply disagree with most of its conclusions. More important, we seriously question their honesty...
Political dopesters last week rated the Presidential election virtually a 50-50 bet...
Those who expect synthetics some day to push rubber off the market entirely, those who think the Mexican guayule bush a better bet, looked dubious; but Vargas was confident. That he had rubber-worried Uncle Sam behind him to some extent was indicated by the fact that at Manaus he received exhaustive reports from experts of the U. S. Department of Agriculture working in conjunction with private experts from Goodyear. In Belem, Vargas lunched with John Ingle, head of Goodyear's Crude Rubber Division, who flew there from Akron as guest of Vargas' golf partner, Brazil...
...Corps Chief "Hap" Arnold announced last week that the Army's training quota for next year would be doubled: 24,900 cadets and officers would be started through the school. How many would be graduated at year's end no Air Corps man could say. Safe bet was around 15,000. Safer bet still was that both Army and Navy were out to beat airplane-production schedules; that when planes came off the lines there would be no lack of pilots to fly them...