Word: wagers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hundred and fifty years ago an English "Macaroni" made a bet with several of his fellow "bucks" to send a letter a hundred miles in an hour. His wager was immediately accepted and he proceeded to write a letter, place it inside a cricket ball, and have it thrown around by a circle of England's best bowlers for an hour. At the end of the time, it was computed that the letter had travelled upwards of a hundred and twenty-one miles...
...premier weight thrower to capture first place. In competition Brown has never done 160 feet, but in practice this year he has achieved results which justify the expectations of his supporters. Bradley of Kansas Agricultural College, Tonon of M. I. T., Tootel of Bowdoin, Cruikshank of Yale, and Wager of Cornell are a quintet of weight throwers who are expected to afford Brown some keen competition while in Baker and Emery, Princeton has a pair of men capable of getting 150 feet of better...
...yard dash, but failed to place in the fastest semi-final of the day. The one consolation for the Crimson came in the afternoon when Brown hurled the 35-1b. weight 47 ft., 11 in., winning the event by over four and a half feet from Wager of Cornell...
...find subjects the reasonable treatment of which will stir the thought of your readers and provoke discussion; have those subjects treated without sensationalism, but ably and vigorously; and if you succeed in performing this difficult task you will have not only a more readable magazine, but also, I will wager, one with more literary vitality than most college periodicals of today possess. FREDERICK L. ALLEN...
...those misguided souls who will have to be compelled to join a gym class, one can only wish good luck. Probably most of them will be out for some sport after a few weeks of "ready, HEXercise". At all events, it is a safe wager that at the end of the year the present Freshman class will be as much in favor of the compulsory system...