Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Holles almost accepted a coaching bid from Cornell in 1937, but when he finally fell prey to the lure of Bill Bingham's offerings he recommended the name of Stork Sanford to the powers that be at Ithaca. He has had plenty of days since then on which to rue that advice, for Sanford and his Cornell eights have given the Crimson more trouble than any other opponent over the last decade...
...David Hotelling, 10, of Napa, Calif., realized a child's dream. He had saved enough pennies (selling Christmas cards and doing chores) to make a bid of $25 at an auction of outmoded fire equipment, drove off in a red 1926 fire engine...
Even in the North. As early returns piled up, it seemed certain that the Communist bid for mastery over Italy had been crushed. The erratic weather had not kept voters from the polls; the turnout throughout the nation approached 90%. The threat of civil war, which had hovered over the polls despite the peaceful progress of the balloting, diminished considerably as dispatch after dispatch told of imposing anti-Communist strength-even in the industrial north, in Italy's reddest citadels...
...sale, Goudy's family had hoped that somebody might offer to make a "shrine" of the place, but nobody had come forward. Then Ralph C. Coxhead, manufacturer of VariTyper machines (widely used by publishers whose typesetters go on strike), got the farm on an $18,000 bid. His plan: to "perpetuate it as a shrine...
From bow to stroke, the following eight will launch Harvard's bid for world's championship, barring further pestilence: Mike Scully, Don Felt, Ted Reynolds, Dick Emmet, Taggart, Frank Strong, Paul Knaplund, and Bill Curwen. Sam Mantel will handle vocal duties from the stern...