Word: net
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Ware, of Roxbury Latin School, again won the interscholastic tennis tournament by defeating M. D. Whitman of Hopkinson, yesterday afternoon, in the finals three straight sets - 6-4, 6-3, 7-5. The first two sets Ware took rather easily, owing to his superior net-play and Whitman's out-of-court drives. In the third set, however, Whitman made a very plucky stand, and Ware won only after a very close struggle...
...three points of unjust discrimination. First, savings banks. It exempts six hundred and taxes three hundred. One class divides its profits-in a particular way and is exempt. Second, between insurance companies. Of two insurance companies, one is a regular stock company and is taxed two per cent on net income; the other, a mutual company, goes free-Third, between kinds of income. This bill exempts general incomes of four thousand dollars, while corporations are taxed two per cent on net incomes without exemption. All corporate stock is widely distributed among persons whose income is less than $4,000. Thus...
However, we will guarantee you seventy-five dollars to defray your expenses and give you half the net gate receipts of the game. This is the best we can do for you, but I hope you will be able to accept these terms...
...terms the only arrangement we would care to make will be to promise you three-quarters of the net gate receipts. I feel sure that the game would draw well and as it would also be well advertised I see no reason why you should not pay all your expenses from the gate...
...Hart's Committee, and in the putting forth by that committee of its admirable report on the subject; and by those who watched the struggle of the college authorities to fairly guide and control athletics through the offices of advisory committees and what not, that the final net result of this process, the present committee of athletics, had been formed in the light of the experiences gained; that this committee so formed and vested with full power, would govern wisely and without prejudice; and that, above all, the erratic "interference of the Faculty" was forever a thing of the past...