Word: nets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...net result at our Convention is that the tension has been lessened; the Episcopal Church is likely to be more united within itself on the subject. It is worth noting that the resolution was finally passed in the House of Deputies without a single dissenting vote. We are going to try harder-but better-to work for a solution of the problem...
Just Money. For the rest of its hoped-for billions, the Treasury suggested: 1) $400,000,000 more from estate and gift taxes; 2) $1.1 billion from raising the normal tax and surtax rate for corporations from 40% to 50% for companies with net incomes of over $50,000 a year. Nobody squawked much at this: neither corporations nor dead men vote. But these taxes are no solution of the inflation problem...
...gone when the enemy, simply by flying over China's amazingly efficient warning net, could suck U.S. aircraft aloft and by that deed alone strike a heavy blow in the expenditure of precious U.S. fuel. On the P-40s, the Mitchell bombers and the handful of big Liberators, tiny Jap flags were growing in number. And the U.S. death list was not growing forbiddingly long...
...Soviet effort. More detailed articles by Professors Cross and Dana on Russian literature and drama as well as J. Leyda's review of the marine engineer turned guerilla after cinema complete the issue's critical material. Many readers will find these articles unnecessarily full of unfamiliar names, but the net effect is a fine picture of the creative artistry which, under government auspices, is continuing to develop new and popular art forms...
...hero of the Varsity game was Roger Lazarus, who was the beneficiary of a hole left when Bob Woodside drew off the French fullbacks. Lazarus used it to power the ball, driving it through the uprights into the high part of the net, out of the reach of the French goalie...