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Word: nets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entire game were the Crimson stick-men in danger. C. O. Simpson '27, playing at first attack accounted for three of the nine goals, playing a brilliant game. One of the Harvard goals came as the result of Esterbrook the Dartmouth goal keeper scooping the ball into his own net...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MINOR SPORT CONTESTS RESULT IN EVEN BREAK | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

...hostile nature. When wild beasts take to marauding, he takes to hunting. Both his cunning and their savagery are depicted with such clarity, plausibility and genuineness that those fortunate enough to be in the audience can only marvel at the intrepidity of the photographers, and ponder how insolently the net prevails over the claw. The big scene shows a great herd of chang (elephants) being driven into a trap by fear of natives camouflaged as bushes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: May 9, 1927 | 5/9/1927 | See Source »

...object in socker* to kick a round inflated pigskin into a rectangular net, known as goal. But human, feet often err; smite opponents in the shins, groins, stomachs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Socker | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

...electricity and 64,952,297,000 cubic feet of gas to 1,-503,424 customers (166,000 were consumer-stockholders in the service companies) in 1,382 communities (including Pittsburgh, Louisville, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Oklahoma City, San Diego and San Francisco) whose populations totaled 5,700,000. Total net profits were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Gas & Electric | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

With the start of the second half, however, the Cornell backs tightened up and the Cornell forwards scored almost at will, putting the ball into the Crimson net six times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LACROSSE TEAM BOWS TO INVADERS' ONSLAUGHTS | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

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