Word: net
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University bureau of business research, acting with the co-operation and financial assistance of the National Dry Goods Asociation, after a pioneer survey of doing business in department stores, has come to the conclusion that a read-justment of operating expenses is necessary to restore net profit to normal in this business. The average net profit realized in the department store trade in 1921 was 1.3 per cent, of net sales, which is considered too small. The bureau also discovered that a rapid rate of stock-turn is fully as important in department stores as in other businesses...
Saturday's unexpected victory over Yale was the culmination of a rather successful season for the University tennis team during which the net men wen eight times, tied one match, and were defeated in four. The chief defeat that marred the record was at the hands of Princeton, which won for the fourth successive year...
...strength was more evenly distributed and as a result her better-balanced team was able to take four singles and two doubles matches and defeat the University 6-3. Four days later Brown was defeated 6-0 at Cambridge in the second clean-sweep of the season, but the net-men lost to Dartmouth 4-2 in the fourth and last defeat of the season when the two teams met at Hanover on May 20. Pennsylvania was defeated 5-1 on the Longwood covered courts a week ago today, but here as in the Williams match the victors were...
...net-men have been spending several days in test matches, with the result that while the personnel of the team remains the same Bradley and Guild have changed places. Duane and Pfaffman have been playing well all week and their defeat in the doubles on Saturday by Sanders and Howe of Dartmouth is the more easily understood when consideration is taken of the work of the Green team in the recent New England intercollegiates...
...year, in winning from Moore of Holy Cross in straight sets. Moore had a peculiar twist service and his forehand strokes under good control and the only way that Cummings could gain the upper hand was by driving hard and deep to his opponent's backhand and taking the net...