Word: nets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Selective Service explained that its failure to keep up to quota was "partly because of pending legislation, partly for other reasons." The fact remained that by year's end Army & Navy net strength was almost 300,000 short of a planned net strength of 10,709,000. Planned net strength by next July...
...cake of soap and a little oil; a minute quantity of fish and one egg. Only children have the right to milk. The people keep body and soul together with a little rice and vegetables. . . . "Brides can no longer include a tansu [wooden chest of drawers] and a mosquito net in their trousseau, but must be happy with two boxes of senko [incense] and a basket [bassinet...
...Under the reproduction cost theory, the value of a 4O-year-old plant, for example, is set at the cost of rebuilding the plant and reproducing its equipment at current wage and material levels, minus a percentage for depreciation. Thus, the net rise in prices over the last 40 years increases the present value, for rate purposes, whether or not any more money has been invested...
...country's political growth should not be stunted by the dead hand of mere legalism." He dissented when the Court ruled out Canada's first "New Deal" sponsored by Prime Minister (now Lord) Bennett. When his fellow judges ruled that women were not persons and therefore net entitled to sit in the Senate, he dissented vigorously. His view was upheld in the Privy Council in London, of which Sir Lyman had been a member since...
...net result of all this foolishness, which incidentally, includes one of the cleverest dream sequences we've seen, is that the uncouth sand-hog, whom, Claudette bates, detests, despises--only we know better is transformed by some hocus-pocus into an eligible, even desirable future mate...