Word: evens
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...percentage of points won, that is, in the case just cited, the first couple would have won 47 per cent, and the second, 58 per cent. This would really let every couple show what they could do in 48 hands, and it stands to reason that luck would even itself more in 48 than 16 hands...
...because some couple had run up a large number of points on a poor couple in a previous round, they could not keep such an advantage throughout the tournament. Every round and every section should be isolated, and then all couples on this percentage plan, would have an absolutely even chance...
...Shortest Day with the Dissenters." It spread consternation and excitement among men of all parties, aroused the intense opposition of the churchmen, and the lurking distrust of the nonconformists. Defoe was vigorously punished, but his hold on the London populace was demonstrated by their enthusiastic reception of him, even when in the pillory...
...with the others, placed herself on record as opposed to the rule, but not because she was opposed to reform. She simply believes that, in the heat of enthusiasm, Yale was indiscreet in attempting to narrow her athletics down to a college basis; and this feeling is apparently strong even at Yale. With college sentiment expressed so strongly against the measure, it would seem dictatorial, at the least, to persist uncompromisingly in a plan so weakly backed...
...speaking of racing, a writer in Outing says "at present the national tendency toward legislation in racing, recalls the old fable of the mountain that brought forth a mouse, but it is hard to say what a month or even a week may show. The passage of some really satisfactory measure would be of the greatest service, not only to the actual states that would possess them, but as setting an example to the entire country. The plague - for it amounts to nothing less - of unrestricted racing must be checked...