Word: wagers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...done more for God than this; for, when once Yin has passed over into Yang, not the Devil himself can prevent God from completing His fresh act of creation by passing over again from Yang to Yin on a higher level. . . . Thus the Devil is bound to lose the wager, not because he has been cheated by God, but because he has overreached himself...
...Mario, the new priest, was a patient man; he knew that Italian tempers cool eventually. Last week a small, penitent group came to Mass. There was also a noticeable decline in attendance at Pastor Schreider's sermons. Said Don Mario, beaming gently: "I wager they all, even the black sheep, will come to hear midnight Mass on Christmas. Peace will return...
...hundreds of cities, renters of apartments, buyers of grain, textiles, beer, and almost every short article might propose the never-won wager: "Betcha I can spit farther than...
Harry unpacked his bags and fixed it. Once again, Horseplayer Hopkins cashed in on the best dark-horse wager he ever made-his historic 1941 bet that the Russians could hold the Germans...
Winston Churchill's longtime bulldog faith in the solidarity of the British Empire was revealed in a 44-year-old wager made public by a Manhattan rare-book dealer, who had just purchased the sheet of paper on which Churchill had written out the terms of the bet. On Jan. 23, 1901, while on a lecture tour of the U.S., Churchill bet ?100 against Minneapolis Bibliophile James C. Young's assertion that "within ten years from this date the British Empire will . . . lose one quarter of India or of Canada or of Australia...