Word: net
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another time, when the peace referendum issue was before Congress, May knew a direct question would net zero results (the President tries never to discuss legislation in process). She asked: "Mr. President, do you regard a peace referendum as consonant with a representative form of government?" To neither question did she get an answer. To the last she got a question: did she stay up all night thinking it up? Answered May: "I did." May Craig got into newspapering in 1923 by helping her late husband Don Craig (then Washington reporter for the old New York Herald) with a sideline...
...prettiest plays in sport is soccer's "corner kick"-a free kick booted from the corner of the field toward the players of both teams, who try to kick or butt the ball into the net or down the field. In The Bronx's Starlight Park this week, corner kicks and other fancy head-and-footwork were executed with rare artistry. The performers were the two foremost big-league outfits in the U.S.: the Brooklyn Hispanos and Pittsburgh's Morgan Strassers, facing each other in soccer's equivalent of the baseball World's Series...
...playing soccer, is a 200-lb. six-footer with a tremendous kick in his massive legs. One of soccer's hardest shots, he can boot a ball fast enough to break a man's hand. From 20 yards he has often broken the goal's netting. Despite his Bronko Nagurski bulk, Gonsalves has the nimbleness of a Red Grange. At dribbling, volleying, jumping and tackling (snaring a ball from an opponent by clever footwork), he can match his stringier colleagues. At heading, too, Gonsalves has no peer. He butts with prodigious accuracy, has headed a mud-heavy...
...Karker warned that 1943 contract prices would be shaved lower still, but few companies had to worry about that. To many a company even a million-dollar cut in gross profits will make only a $100,000 difference in net because of the heavy taxes it must...
...investors were scarcely interested. Although under pressure they absorbed the bonds of German cities, South American republics and Japanese utilities, they did not get the habit of buying foreign securities and go shopping for more. On the contrary, they sold. Transactions on the exchanges showed a net decrease in U.S. holdings of foreign securities of $830 million between 1922 and 1930. The U.S. investor preferred to bid up securities at home...