Word: wager
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ward's weighty wager on the future will cost $500 million over the next five years. It has reason for confidence; Ward's sales (1958 total: $1.1 billion) rode 19% ahead of last year's in February and March, will probably show a 14% gain for April, "We are on the eve of a decade of great economic activity," said Chairman Barr. "We would not embark on a program of this scope if we did not have great faith in the future of our economy...
...students who will go to college somewhere else if they are denied aid. "I would be reasonably certain," King writes, "that at no College Scholarship Service college do as many as half the scholarship winners come from the neediest half of our nation's population. I would even wager that at no CSS college do as many as half of the dollars spent for scholarships go to students from the neediest half of our population." And this despite the financial aid revolution of determining stipends by need rather than merit...
Pirandello's "comedy in the making" is almost ideally suited for showing off the talents of the new company, especially since the adaptation by Tyrone Guthrie and Michael Wager has gotten rid of the mustiness that clung to earlier versions. It has no star part, only a good number of important middle-sized ones. Its story--about a second-rate theatrical company whose indolent rehearsal of a lousy play is suddenly and spookily interrupted by six intense black-clad figures, claiming to be characters from an unfinished "tragedy" and demanding that the company dramatize their miserable history--this story gives...
...extraordinarily gifted nucleus of the VTW-HTW contained, besides Kilty, Robert Fletcher '45, Michael Wager '45, Thayer David '47, Peter Temple '47, Bryant Haliday '49, Albert Marre (Law '47-48, GSAS '48-50), and Miles Morgan...
...century of soldiering, told a farewell Paris press conference: "Quite frankly, I am a Gaullist. General de Gaulle stands for France more than any other person in decades. He is a good guy-and he is going to put this country right. If anybody disagrees, I'll wager...