Word: nets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...total number of immigrant arrivals was 294,314, from which are to be subtracted 92,728 departures, leaving a net immigration of 201,586 for 1924-25. (The net immigration...
...Patterson was wild. He slammed balls into the net, he slammed them out-not out by one or two inches, but by many yards. Hawkes was slow. Williams and Richards winked at each other. "What, the crowd wondered, gives these Australians the impression they can play tennis?" Patterson himself was beginning: to wonder. He had hit the ball hard before. It had gone out. He hit it twice as hard. It went in. His Partner picked up heart, and assisted by the errors of erratic Williams, they ran out the set 8-6 added the next to their score...
...Net. So much has the Mac-Millan-Byrd expedition accomplished...
...longer were the courts of the West Side Club the scene of a populous and pretty carnival. Combat had narrowed, grown bitter. Miss Wills played Miss Goss. The latter skimmed the net-cord with her strokes, whisked them to send up spirals of chalk from the baseline, won the first set 6-3. Prickly heat began to affect the vertebrae of the spectators. Was a champion going down? Miss Wills, smiling her poker smile, won a love set, ran through six of the next eight games, tucked the match in her vanity case...
...Brookline. Gerald Patterson for Australia - a tall sleek giant, epitomizing in his person all the large-limbed grace and slow-footedness of the western peoples-op-posed Takeichi Harada for Japan, a man like a brown jumping-jack. Patterson drove his mighty shots into the net, swacked them over the backline, was tidily defeated but his teammates, Anderson and Hawkes, won all their matches, eliminated Japan from the Davis Cup tryouts. Australia was scheduled to oppose France to see which will face...