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...softball battle is scheduled for the next day on which it doesn't rain. This time the WAVES meet the league-winning Class D team of the NSCS. To insure keen competition the men have offered their opponents a male pitcher and catcher, a seven-run advantage, and a wager; the winners are to be entertained at the losers' mess-hall. We have accepted the challenge and the terms and are all set to prove they were much too lenient...

Author: By Ensign RUTH Wolgast, | Title: CREATING A RIPPLE | 5/14/1943 | See Source »

...WAGER-SMITH Albuquerque...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 10, 1943 | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

Reorganization of the Turkish Cabinet last fortnight produced substantial evidence that Turkey's ruling clique, while clinging to strictly pro-Turkish neutrality, was ready to wager on Allied victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Picking the Winner | 3/29/1943 | See Source »

...extent that there were about a dozen Ph.D.s in organic chemistry on the Berlin police force. I recall with shame that a group at a national meeting of the American Chemical Society thought that was really funny and an indication of just how dumb the Germans were. You can wager that those chemists are no longer on the police force. Neither are they in the army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 21, 1942 | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

...Some Alsab backers may have been influenced by mysterious handbills that were distributed at the many Pimlico gates the day of the race. The handbills read; Alsah Can't Lose. The tout: a New York gambler who had made a wager of $1,000 against $3,000 that Alsab would go to the post the favorite

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Alsab Comes Back | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

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