Word: betting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hear that call right now, ringing out at this very moment at Columbia and Northwestern, we'll bet. And you can see them running blinker drill, and ordnance drill while we muster for statistics lab and industrial management. They're looking forward to commissioning day at Columbia and to mid-semester exams at Northwestern (and here we sing "Four More Months to Go" (grunt, grunt)...and for most of us that's only forgetting the fact that we should be singing "Twelve More Months...
...weapons offered the sure way to bring the Axis down. But flying was his great passion. He had about 6,000 hours on Army planes, and was an expert pilot even at 59. A flyer who knew him remarked, after hearing of the crash: "I'll bet Andy is bitching right now because he didn't take over that landing himself." And all the General's friends knew he had been ready for something like this a long time ago; he often told them: "I don't want to be one of those generals...
...with every other shortage, the civilian will sooner or later pay for his greed. Just when cotton goods rationing will come depends on whether the U.S. civilian from now on buys from need or from fright. But the best bet is that fright-buying has already gone so far that rationing will come by next fall, even if hoarding stops...
...domestic whiskeys, owned 20 of 97 operating distilleries. By last week the same four owned at least 20 more of the smaller distilleries, and Deputy Price Administrator J. Kenneth Galbraith estimated that the big fry control 80% of all the bulk whiskey in the U.S. Topers had one safe bet: for the duration liquor will be both scarce and expensive. But they had one nip of comfort-the sober outlook for drinkers makes the outlook for Old Man Prohibition bleak...
...bet. TIME's tired printer slipped, misread Lo as Los and obtiene as obtiente...