Word: tote
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harris also claimed that, faced with this loss in endowment earning power, "the colleges must turn tote government for aid if they hope to maintain their standards...
...cornerstone of Stanford life is the honor code. This is similar tote Radcliffe plan, with no proctors at exams. The freshmen receive a very strong indoctrination into the spirit of the code, which is pictured to them as an essential part of Stanford life. The code is enforced by a student court, which has often expelled students for cheating. One attitude expressed is, "Usually I'd try to see what I can get away with, but they pull this honor business on you and you're stuck." Coupled with the Honor Code is the Fundamental Standard, which says, "Students...
...minute, they saw what they were waiting for: a substantial-looking citizen approached and murmured a few words to Baldy. The bookie's eyes flicked to the tote board, caught the changing odds on the day's featured race-the $25,000 Fall Highweight Handicap. Then Baldy winked. No money had changed hands, but the substantial citizen had just made a substantial-and illegal...
Fire regulations peculiar to pre-historic Sanders have forced the BTW back into the sixteenth century, when scenery was unheard of. Smartly attired pages will tote vast brightly colored banners onto the stage to suggest the tone and location of each scene...
Lough Conn, a 33-to-1 shot from Ireland, led most of the way, as he had last year until he fell at treacherous Becher's Brook. At the last few jumps, up moved Caughoo, 100-to-1 (202½-to-1 on the tote), an Irish eight-year-old with a jockey who had never ridden the Aintree course before. Caughoo (who cost Dublin Jeweler J. J. McDowell $200 as an unbroken juvenile) finished 20 lengths out front. The fog was so thick that most of the 300,000 in the crowd had to read about the race...