Word: nets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...traditional North American invades England with his five gallon hat and blundering manners. He has arrived to marry an English widow whom he has never seen. Through the vagaries of an old man's will this marriage will net them jointly $3,750,000. The widow objects to being married for money, disguises herself as her own parlor maid and wins the rude invader by her wit and charm...
...Atlantic City, stylists whispered last week of veiled ankles. How veiled? By a net hem attached to skirts, slender flesh-stalks showing through...
...alma mater elder members of that new group of Americans who are so largely the cause of the need of more endowment. If confirmation of this were lacking, it would be supplied by the fact that "the appeal for stadia" so potent with the loyal graduate, has net struck as does as the appeals for educational endowments and buildings...
...question. Often, too, Miss Browne managed to return some difficult shot only to have it called out, and on these occasions Mlle. Lenglen sometimes pointed out to the referee that she wished her friend to have the point. In one unfortunate game two of Suzanne's drives hit the net cord. Miss Browne won this game. The rest, and the match, Mlle. Lenglen took, 6-1, 6-0?the women's international hard court championship...
...net 1925 profits of the four great dime store chains were collated last week. F. W. Woolworth Co., S. S. Kresge Co., McCrory Stores Corp. and S. H. Kress & Co. all together had available for dividends $43,352,240, a gain of $7,435,759-20.7%-over the $35,916,481 which their net earnings were in 1924. (1924 earnings were only $580,372-1.5%-greater than those of 1923.) Comparison...