Word: nets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week, in two hours one afternoon and with comparatively little ado, the House of Representatives passed a bill that is the chief net outcome of the great excitement created last fall by Colonel William Mitchell's sensational attack on the Army Air Service (TIME, Sept...
...Year net for divs. shares A share...
...net result may by chance be as just. But the game is different. And throughout such political organization as the country possesses, there is a constant aversion among hardened campaigners to anything which could be called a system. The city machine, falsely so-called, is bound only by ties of self-interest to the party throughout the state; while a national party contains manifold units of unequal cohesion. The men who run politics take a fancy to leaving the door wide open for rebellion, usurpation, and insubordination. They work, as Mrs. Blair remarks not by program but by prowess. They...
...equal for speed and endurance, and the development of these features has probably done more to attract the public interest than anything else. Always a fast game, the shortening and improvement of the lacrosse stick made it still faster. The original stick was little more than a flat net on a long handle, and to control the ball with it was little short of marvelous. The modern mentors of the game saw that a shorter stick with a deeper webbing would make for quicker, castle and more accurate handling of the ball. It would prevent a slowing...
...when it was all over, the net result of the investigation was to furnish just a little more ammunition for Wets and Drys alike and to prepare the way for political campaigns on the prohibition issue, which are apparently in the making in Illinois, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and New York...