Word: nets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remaining two will be decided today. Briggs won his way into the semi-final round yesterday with a decisive two-set win over S. A. Fitch 1L., 6-2, 6-1. The winner was on the top of his game, making beautiful placement shots and passing Fitch at the net repeatedly...
...pool and appointing a representative to bid for them. Whatever is bought in the interests of the pool is sold again to private individuals or at other auctions and the profits divided. It was an open secret among the Trade in London that the Leverhulme "knock-out" would net its participants approximately half a million dollars out of the pockets of the estate...
...acquaintance, one day on leave, of a spinster seamstress. She falls in love with him. He promises to come back to her and eventually does. The U. S. Navy in person assisted in the filming of many scenes. "Cripes" and "spigotty" are givtn as U. S. sailor talk. The net entertainment profit is very...
...being one of the linesmen. He depends for success on his celebrated chop-stroke- a shot which he executes with the same twist of the wrist that a chef in the front window of a low-grade restaurant employs to turn a pancake. The ball skims the net low, finds corners and clips lines with uncanny accuracy, bounces; extremely low. With it, Johnson clipped down Anderson, 6-1, 1-6, 8-6, 6-4. Next day he faced Tilden...
...work. A reading room is located on the second floor, where daily papers and magazines may be found. There is also a circulating library. All students are invited to use the Text Book Loan Library, a collection of about 3,000 text books, which are rented at a net cost of five cents per book for the college year. This library will be open daily beginning today...