Word: net
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First news of the Kearny's brush came from her gamecock (5 ft. 2% in.) skipper, 42-year-old Lieut. Commander Anthony Leo Danis. It was brief; onetime Airshipman Danis wanted no German raider to spot him through radio messages. Net of his message: the Kearny, torpedoed 350 miles southwest of Iceland, was proceeding to port under her own power...
...circus troupe to call him a "butterfly with a trunk." When he trips on his ears during the elephant act, knocking down a pyramid of elephants and demolishing the Big Top, he is exiled to the circus Siberia: a small part (diving from a burning building into a net) in the clowns...
...payoff humus as did Harvard on these two thrusts. Every time the sailor backs got going, the holes in Harvard's line mysteriously closed and swallowed the ball carrier in a morass of Crimson jerseys. HARVARD-NAVY STATISTICS H N Points Scored 0 0 First Downs 5 12 Net Gain Rushing 71 164 Passes Attempted 11 9 Passes Completed 2 2 Gained by Passes 37 22 Passes Intercepted by 0 2 Gained by Interceptions 0 13 Number of Punts 13 12 Average Punts 37 38 Punt Runbacks 15 36 Number of Penalties 1 3 Yards Penalized...
Arrangements have just been completed with Tulane University to send eight players and a coach down to New Orleans to participate in a sort of informal tournament between southern and northern college net teams...
...longest matches of the tournament was finally terminated yesterday in one set when Russ Ellis defeated Bob Boochever, a star on Cornell's net team last year, six games to one. Two days previously, they fought to a 3-6, 6-3, 6-6 draw until the match was postponed on account of darkness, with the third set to be played at another date...