Word: bet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Estimate raise him from $25,000 to $40,000 per annum, thus becoming the highest-paid public official in the land excepting the U. S. President ($75,000). Defending the idea, said he: "I don't need the money. If it became a sporting proposition, I'd bet on the turn of a coin the amount of the raise...
Member in the Dark: I'll bet they're keeping Johnson out of this dinner by an inadvertence...
...five years during which statistics were available, the important point is the rapidity with which it has been lowered with the passing of each decade. Twenty years before the turn of the century, the Harvard athlete in comparison with the average non-college man was a thirteen to ten bet to succumb to the grim reaper before the great mass of people not engaged in strenuous competition; it is now a four to five proposition that he will not attain greater longevity than the other...
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...Visalia, Cal., Wayne Switzer, county surveyor, bet $2 on the Leland Stanford football team against Southern California with one Alden Jones. When he lost, Better Switzer paid Better Jones a piece of flypaper with 200 pennies stuck...