Word: betting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hendy Iron Works had built the two-story-high, 271,000-lb. reciprocating engine, and Moore was aboard to see how it performed. At the end of the trip he beamed, said: "When it's neither too tight to smell nor too loose to hear, then you can bet a ball of wax it's a damn fine engine...
...listened to a short-wave broadcast from Boston, and the announcer quoted a long statement by Major George Fielding Eliot, the military expert, saying that the submarine menace in the west Atlantic and Caribbean had been licked. I turned to the captain and said: 'I'll bet ten dollars a submarine gets us.' At 2:38 the following morning we were torpedoed...
...Still undetermined is what will be done with 250,000 Army & Navy reservists now in colleges, but it is a fair bet most of them will not stay there long...
Dick Manegold was a sure bet for one of the tackles but it was a toss-up between George Blanchard of Kirkland and Jim Aldrich of Winthrop for the other, with Blanchard just winning...
Just before the A.E.F. took the offensive last week, China's shrewd Foreign Minister T. V. Soong, back in Chungking after more than two years' work in Washington, placed a heavy bet on the U.S. Seated beneath a portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Minister Soong declared that the U.S. was building "a great army, a tough army, an army that will be unbeatable. I came away from the United States with the distinct impression that uphill toil is now over. I left Washington with a feeling of restrained optimism. One is struck by the tremendous efforts exerted...