Word: nets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much more rapidly than the production of foodstuffs. Only last week the Department of Agriculture made public a study confirming this fact. Of sugar, fruits, nuts and vegetables we import more than we export. We still export more grain, grain products, and animal products than we import, but the net exportation of animal products has fallen off 41% in 25 years or so, and grain and grain products have fallen off 22% in approximately the same period. On the other hand our sugar imports have increased 111% and imports of fruit, nuts and vegetables have increased 367% over what they...
Martin, the Terrier captain and goal guard, is regarded as one of the best cage guardians among the New England teams, although he has been in the habit of going down the ice and leaving the net unguarded at times. This may prove a fatal error against the Crimson short passing game...
...deeply tangled in the net of one Madame de Hauteville, the Society for the Suppression of Vice in a provincial German town was about to be laughed out of existence by the delighted newspapers. Incited by one of the Society's members, the police had made a raid and discovered evidence incriminating the very executive committee of the puritans...
...turned their attention to football. They are working on the theory that if college football will attract between 50,000 and 80,000 persons at from $2 to $3 apiece, games played by professional players who have made fine records on the college field will draw attendances which will net them good returns on their investments. They point to professional baseball as an example...
...facilities for general athletics. On the contrary, though this is no reason for more seats, the addition of even 10,000 to the present seating capacity of the Stadium would as a natural result increase our gross income above the guarantees by something like $60,000 annually, and the net income by fully $30,000 after providing for interest on the investment and the sinking fund required. It is so obvious that more seats would result in an increase of our net income from the two capacity games now played annually in the Stadium that I am utterly unable...