Word: payoff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this year, unable to swallow another licking by Texas (32-13), old grads put up the money to buy up his unexpired contract and send him packing. Was he mad at his dismissal? Not he. Said Homer: the payoff was fine, and as for Texas A. & M., "My best wishes go with them always...
Forcefully demonstrating the results of a year's scouting and planning by hard-thinking quarter J. "Anyface" Carodny '48, shown above as he plunged into thought for the vital tally in Saturday's payoff grid encounter, a highly lubricated Plympton Street aggregation outrushed, outpassed, and out-talked a pawky and uncoordinated crew of Yale Daily Newsmen by a 23 to 2 count...
...Cambridge, the Varsity eleven suffered what was considered a catastrophic blow. Three regulars were injured going into the Army game and could not play. The Cadets won that game 7 to 6. They were almost overpowered by a savage Crimson attack but capitalized on two fumbles to score their payoff touchdown...
...four years, Pepsi-Cola's annual show has become a major art event. The cogent reason: Pepsi offers more cash (though not more prestige) than any other art show. This year's payoff: $35,950 in prizes...
That a veteran would cash in his bond only to pad his safe deposit account was regarded as highly doubtful by Richard M. Goodwin, assistant professor of Economics. He considered that where the payoff money came from was the determining factor in estimating a possible inflationary effect...