Word: net
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boyco Brown, the alto saxophonist, who not only studies metaphysics but applies them to his musicianship and even his everyday existence. When he tangled with spiritual Tut Soper (who also plays phenomenal piano) the lid was off and it was strictly a case for the man with the net...
...wagered a dollar that you were right. But according to our figures, a taxpayer with a net taxable income of $1,000,000 will pay a combined income tax of $965,475 ($895,900 Federal tax, $69,575 New York State tax), leaving him the paltry, subsistence-level sum of $34,525 to live on-but still in the black...
Franklin Roosevelt, so jubilant that he forgot his lingering cold, could hardly wait to break the news. At a press conference three days before the terms of the agreement were announced, he grinned and joked, nearly popped with his happy secret, finally said: The net results of the Moscow Conference had been a tremendous success. The spirit of the whole meeting had been amazingly good. State Secretary Cordell Hull deserved a great deal of credit for that spirit, and so did the British and Russians...
...Schumann reasoned that there must be some way to condense this moisture on objects other than trees. He first tried gauze netting (using a small artificial cloud in his laboratory), but the tiny droplets went through his net. He decided to apply electricity: he put two gauze disks in a glass tube, created a potential of 30,000 volts between them, succeeded in condensing all the cloud vapor in his tube...
...net income of U.S. doctors has increased 73.9% in the last decade; they grossed more than a billion dollars in 1941, netted $640 million-almost their 1929 net income. But the number of doctors in practice had increased by over 10,000. The doctors' average income was still below what...