Word: crossed
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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...
...Annex team accepts, they will be the fourth girl's school to cross sticks with the Crimson squad. The Mill Street aggregation has already beaten Wheaton 1 to 0, tied Bradford 1 to 1, and returned to swamp Bradford...
...motherly joy and motherly foreboding. After the miracle of the wine at the wedding in Cana, she loses sight of him until just before the end. Asch brings her into the Garden of Gethsemane to eavesdrop on the arrest, a few pages further has her climb to where the cross stands on Golgotha...
...deadpan report on the eight-day trading session that embittered many a champion of "open covenants openly arrived at." It is the most complete report yet made and should be historically important, but many a reader will refuse to let Russian skulduggery take the whole rap for the Yaltese cross...