Word: card
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More important than this is the shrewd handicapping system employed by the lottery racketeers. Spotters are hired in all parts of the country to keep a close line on the teams which they are considering for card use. The Harvard Holy Cross game is a case in point...
...card which came out on Tuesday of that week had Harvard favored by seven points. The subscriber could either pick Harvard to win by more than that or Holy Cross to loose by less. In case of a tie, the rackets collected. As it turned out the score was 22-14 and the gamblers missed by just one point. However other upsets such as the Teunessee-North Carolina game and the Purdue-Minnesota game enabled the card issuers to make a handsome profit...
...group. The new member will work mainly on the Class Affairs committee, which runs elections of Class committees and supervises class activities. Bornstein has worked with the Council on National Student Association activities, and last year received the Ames award for his efforts in establishing the purchase card system...
...months, Reporter Guthman gathered additional evidence that Rader was telling the truth. He found an optician's record to prove that Rader had broken his glasses at the Washington resort, a University of Washington library card showing he had withdrawn books in Seattle during the time he had supposedly been 3,000 miles away, and a Seattle voting record...
...does not allow seconds on meat. But Princetonians who feel they are being starved into submission frequently bluff their way into two different dining halls during a meal-a practice which both University and Howard Johnson's ignore. Unlike the name checking system at Harvard, a Commons identification card is used at Princeton...