Word: net
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...addition to activities on the CRIMSON Net-work, the Workshop hopes to produce a number of plays for local Boston stations and short-wave WURL...
...trainees by next June 15 (the first 30,000 are to be called Nov. 18). Last week Selective Service headquarters first allotted gross quotas to each State, then deducted from these totals the number of men from each State who were already in service. Result: each State's net quota.† State draft administrators could then break up their Statewide quotas into the quotas for each local draft district...
...There should have been 9,000. Six which were mysteriously missing were replaced and drawn in a later lottery. *In theory. Actually, several hundred thousand registrants had not received their serial numbers by Lottery Day. Additional lotteries will be held for them. †The net quotas up to June 30, 1941: Alabama, 13,711; Arizona, 3,098; Arkansas, 8,946; California, 38,017; Colorado, 3,837; Connecticut, 8,421; Delaware, 1,329; District of Columbia, 3,982; Florida, 10,370; Georgia, 12,792; Idaho, 1,954; Illinois, 62,223; Indiana, 21,087; Iowa, 11,738; Kansas, 8,388; Kentucky...
...them till the evening rush. Likely prospects are then approached with a whispered "I was keeping this place for a pal of mine, lydy, but you can 'ave it-for a bob." Prices range from sixpence in crowded stations to two-and-six in deeper, cleaner stations. Average net take: two pounds a night...
Reagan was nervous. He hurried his punts, twice passed into opponents' hands, made a net gain of only ten yards in twelve tries from scrimmage. Meanwhile Harmon rolled up his sleeves and went to work against the tough Pennsylvania line. In the first few minutes, thanks to a Penn fumble, Michigan had the ball on Penn's 19-yard line. Michigan faked a line buck, tossed a lateral to Harmon and he romped over for a touchdown. He also kicked the point. In the third period, in approximately the same spot, Michigan started what looked like the same...