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Word: nets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Net sales: $680,619,479; net profits: $128,210,440; surplus: $88,392,665; total assets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Billion-Dollar G. M. C. | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

...Manhattan, the Underwood photography service issued a picture of a monstrous cannon tilted skyward, ejecting from its muzzle a human figure. The cannon .was real, the figure a German woman who, at Berlin, allowed herself to be shot from the cannon into a net 40 metres distant, without injury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defendant | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

...Net increase* 284,493 The ten leading countries, from which immigrants came, were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: Fiscal Figures | 8/22/1927 | See Source »

...net increase in the alien population of the U. S. for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, was only 268,351. †Non-quota country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: Fiscal Figures | 8/22/1927 | See Source »

...which was described technically in the July number of The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery, consists of a small pneumatic hammer originally designed by the Chicago Pneumatic Tool Co. to grave carvings and letterings on stone and to do delicate riveting. Its over-all length is eight inches, its net weight three and a half pounds. It delivers 3,800 blows a minute, each blow a light tap. But the sum of their rapid succession, when applied to the surgeon's bone-cutting chisel or osteotome, carves away bone precisely to the surgeon's design...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pitkin's Bone Hammer | 8/22/1927 | See Source »

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