Word: betting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tonight's competition, the Crimson should do quite well, and is a fair bet to place finalists in five of the six events. Defending one-meter champion Pete Dillingham is Hal Ulen's major hope for a first place. His chief competition will come from Yale's Kenny Welch and Navy's Owen Davies...
...graduation from a Toronto high school, he wrote to ask for a job, in his own version of TIME-ese: "Last week, as it must to some, realization came to Toronto's Alex B. Hood that university would be financially impossible. Young (17) Hood's next best bet: to go to New York and work for TIME...
Smoking My Sad Cigarette (Jo Stafford; Columbia). A deep blue mood with a lot of words, but still a likely bet for a top seller...
...entertains with the Master. She presides over the teapot and can tell a seldom-seen guest that she has forgotten his name in a most delightful way. The only person ever to get the better of Mrs. Perkins was the brash Midwestern sophomore who came to tea on a bet and demanded his with lemon and cream and five sugars...
When a Southern novel rolls off the presses, it is an odds-on bet that it will land either in the dark bog of Gothic violence or in the moonlit magnolia patch. Ovid Williams Pierce's The Plantation does neither; it is a first novel of grace, style and quiet excellence...