Search Details

Word: wagered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...combined Australian and U.S. forces. The amounts stated are 662 dead, 63 missing. Later, in a bull session with the boys, I trot out these said totals expecting complete surprise and amazement. The surprise was effected all right, to the extent that they doubted the figures enough to wager $25 that you are wrong. I took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 1, 1945 | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

...Bless America, resounding in true Tibbett style. Then he could follow with a few trenchant remarks. Next, Shortenin' Bread. After ten minutes more of speaking in his resonant voice, he could end with Home on the Range, our President's favorite. A three-ring circus? I wager he would have them standing in the aisles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 9, 1944 | 10/9/1944 | See Source »

...hereby wager a $25 war bond that, should you reprint "Why Not?" (TIME, Aug. 14) and invite your readers to vote on its merits, the majority will agree that it is a masterpiece-unequaled by any comment on the subject of Soviet Russia and the shape of things to come under her leadership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 4, 1944 | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

...decision was worth $65,675 to Wright ($6,600 of it to the jockey) and paid Pensive's backers $16.20, $7.20 and $4.60. Despite wartime travel restrictions and an ODT decree that only local residents could attend, some 65,000 got to Churchill Downs in time to wager $655,372-the heaviest Derby betting since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Derby Dough | 5/15/1944 | See Source »

Plans go ahead for our Yearbook, Safer than any wager on the Derby is that free Yearbook for a proper title. It only takes one idea...

Author: By W. M. Cousins jr. and Midshipmen T. X. cronin, S | Title: The Lucky Bag | 5/9/1944 | See Source »

Previous | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 | Next