Word: bids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tired third. Workman stood at 100-8, just a shade better liked than Royal Mail, 100-7, the only former winner in the field. A tempting long shot was Capt. L. E. Scott Briggs's MacMoffat, at 25-1. Another was Sir Humphrey de Trafford's Under Bid...
Freshmen should see the Housemaster or head tutor if possible; they have the most say when the final list is made up. It is also a good idea to set as high a price as possible: this is fairer to those who cannot afford to make a high bid, and increases the chances of getting in, for obvious reasons. Interviewing more than one member of the House staff is by no means a handicap...
Also out for business, and willing to cut first-class rates to get it, were three Pacific steamship lines, American President, Canadian Pacific and Nippon Yusen Kaisha. Their bid: a round trip from San Francisco to the Orient during April and May for the unprecedented price of a one-way ticket -i.e., $350 to Yokohama...
...franchise for a Manhattan subway was first offered at public auction in 1892. Although potentially it was probably the most lucrative franchise ever offered, it drew a lone bid of $1,000, which was promptly rejected. The city thereupon decided to build the subway itself and August Belmont, then a financial outsider, came forward to act as contractor. When the line was finished in 1904, his Interborough Rapid Transit Co. secured a lease to operate...
Shock trops may be the order of the night when Wes Fesler's harassed cagers attempt to halt Tony Mischo, the one man team from Pennsylvania in the Indoor Athletic Building, and thwart Coach Lon Jourdet's Quakers in their bid for third place in the final E. I. L. standings...