Word: nets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Intercollegiates. When Maurice E. McLoughlin, the California Comet, came blazing across the U. S., lawn tennis followers saw for the first time what efficiency could be displayed by a player who never, if he could help it, took a ball on the bounce, but rushed for the net, to volley, smash, chop. Many lively Californians since have endeavored to maintain their state's tradition for skill at the net. Last week, a youth named Edward G. Chandler of the University of California won the Intercollegiate Tennis Championship from Cranston Holman of Stamford...
...Wimbledon. The All-England Tennis Tournament gathered net notables to Wimbledon and the fun began. Who were the stars ? Jean Borotra of France, present holder of the championship; J. O. Anderson of Australia, long a Davis Cup player ; Suzanne Lenglen of France trying again; Miss Elizabeth Ryan of California. The leading men in the U. S. delegation there were Roy Casey of California and John Hennessey of Indiana. Belgium, Holland, India, Germany, Greece were among the other nations represented...
Whatever has been urged against the proposed Nickel Plate merger, charges of "watered stock" or inflated capitalization have been conspicuous for their absence. In 1924, the five constituent properties (present Nickel Plate, Chesapeake & Ohio, Erie, Pere Marquette and Hocking Valley) showed a combined net income of $34,937,052. This is sufficient to take care of the 6% dividend on the 1,317,150 proposed shares of preferred, and then amount to $17.93 a share on the $150,753,522 of proposed common stock. In a similar way, the earnings of the constituent roads for 1923 would amount...
...make his arms into pointed complements, while his body-the sum of their two right angles-remained a straight line that bounded from point to point of an oblong parallelogram of green turf, other factor of this geometric contes was Manuel Alonso, the Spaniard, whose returns went into the net, over the baseline, whose wrist played him false so that Tilden defeated him with ease, 6-4, 6-4, 6-1, winning the New England Tennis Championship...
True, no college paper has yet proposed an adequate solution. But neither have the college authorities, many of whom are frankly seeking a remedy. Student unrest is net her more nor less than a reviving consciousness, rather imperfectly understood, that old educational systems are restrictive, and inadequate to meet the needs of the day. A few student papers and many college faculty are working independently toward a common goal, the former always insisting that since the primary need is to a waken the student, the student must take a leading part in his own education...