Word: net
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even Jersey City's sky-high taxes did not pay the breathtaking cost of supporting the city in the style to which Hague has accustomed his loyal followers. Among its sister cities of the U.S., not counting bonded debt for utilities. Jersey City has the highest per capita net bonded debt: $172.33. Average...
...March the average rate of loss had been over 100,000 tons a week. At that rate, Britain stood to lose over 5,000,000 tons in 1941. If Britain and the U.S. succeed in building 2,100,000 tons this year-probably the maximum, this would mean a net loss of nearly 3,000,000 tons -or about 23% of the 13,000,000-ton fleet now supplying Britain. It would reduce the effective tonnage of ships engaged in that essential function to little more than 3,000,000 tons. At this rate the British would not be licking...
...players who have a slight advantage over the others. Ted Cohn, runner-up in last fall's Freshman tournament, is a very steady player. His closest rival, Dick Soriein, is a fast, aggressive player. Tall, six feet four inch Hugh Hyde has the height and reach for a good net man and is one of the best doubles men on the team. Former hockey star Marc Becbe has the most powerful serve of the group, Phil Scanlon wields a clever racquet all over the court, and chubby Andy Muldoon possesses a good solid ground stroke but he needs improvement...
...part of the job of air defense is organizing the civilian population to warn of the approach of enemy aircraft. Pattern for what civilians could do was set last winter when General Chaney of the First Air Force tested a vast civilian warning net. Few weeks ago the four Air Force commanders got together with Major General Delos C. Emmons, commander of the GHQ Air Force, to study General Chaney's experiment. This week the Army announced that civilian warning systems would be set up in all the Air Force districts...
...been a "Walter Scott hero come to life." Later he became the "Peter Pan of British Politics." And finally, "the impact of his personality was so shattering that I felt, when I left his service, that this had been the private secretaryship to end all private secretaryships." Net result: I Was Winston Churchill's Private Secretary is a short, thin, intimate sketch infused with adolescent adoration...