Word: net
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...military cemetery. The land is mostly flat, some of it gently rolling. To the northwest there are numerous swamps, now partly frozen. To the north there are great, patchy forests, which even in winter are good cover because they consist mostly of pine and spruce. All around is a net work of rivers-Volga, Moskva, Oka, Sherna, Protva, Ugra, Ruza, Yauza-which are now mostly frozen...
...first period pass from behind the cage, scored again. Gordy McGrath, left wing on the starting line, fired the disc in on the St. Nick's goaler, who cleared it poorly. Gobelein was waiting for the rebound and had little trouble in backhanding the puck into an open net...
...Money. Hollywood does not believe in sharing its profits with idle stockholders. In 1939, seven of the eight major studios paid their 188 executives 19% ($6,086,000) of their net profits. Of this sum, almost 35% went to 24 Loew's officials. Only U.S. department-store executives got more (32%) of their firms' net. At that time the motion-picture industry ranked 14th among 18 top U.S. industries in annual volume of business...
...some 20,000 of them went to Holland and 14,000 to England-and the famous Nazi "tourists." All over the world the Department placed its agents in radio stations; in the more backward countries, Germans installed and operated transmitters for virtually nothing. They held the planet in a net as instantaneous as light...
When questioned about the Soviet and German losses up to the present. Professor Karpovich pointed out that the varying reports from both sides could net possibly be averaged up of any logical conclusion. He also ventured the opinion that if Russia is in a position to demand anything at some far distant peace conference to reorganize Europe she will seek no territorial expansion...