Word: wager
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...fail to print, or advise me, the sequel to Dean Hill's wager re Corbus (Letters. TIME, Dec. 11). I want to know if he pays the bill for 23 TIME subscriptions and what his Comments are, unexpurgated...
Believing that I have won the wager and hoping that it will be just a little lesson to you in the use of adjectives, I have written Johnny Gorman for the names of 22 men who have played on this year's undefeated and untied Princeton freshman football team...
...will lay you a wager of one year's subscription for TIME for each member of this year's undefeated, untied Princeton freshman team that you are wrong. We will limit the number of subscriptions to 22 and one for Johnny Gorman, their coach...
...always been one of our secret ambitions to cozen one of those impeccably smug young men who glide around examination halls, dealing out bluebooks, and making noisome speeches. But it appears that someone beat us to it. There was, it appears, a wager between two amiable fellows, the gist of which was that proctors were or were not worth their salt. And the upshot was that the more intelligent of the two had to prove his point...
...another. Between times Buckler kicked superbly, once sent a punt sailing and rolling 87 yd. Army's hard-charging line, marvelously made from raw material this season, was alternately a stone wall and a steamroller. The decisiveness of Army's victory null caused many a dopester to wager it would go through the season undefeated (by Harvard, Navy, Notre Dame...