Word: nets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Lawn tennis, invented in England only two years before by a Major Walter Clopton Wingfield, was then played on an hourglass-shaped court with a sagging net and thick-framed rackets of almost as many shapes and sizes as there were players. Players served underhand, sedately lobbed the ball back & forth. In England, it was considered unsporting to hit a ball beyond an opponent's reach. But Dick Sears developed what he called "a mild form of volleying," took delight in tapping the ball "first to one side and then to the other, running my opponent all over...
...radio net that Mickey dominates by sheer voice power is an entirely new web thrown over the superlative Chinese A.R.P. net in the last eight months. Never in the past four years has an undetected Jap raider slipped through that net into the hinterland. The Chinese posts are usually far away in hills, jungles and valleys. One man pumps current for the radio with his legs, another reports what the Japs are doing...
Almost all the operators who man the net entered the Army around the time of Pearl Harbor, came out to China after six months in radio schools, became fast friends on shipboard. Now they keep contact with each other only over...
...sunny San Pedro, one of the U.S. fish capitals, the harbor was hectic with production. The white-hulled tuna clipper Long Island warped in with the season's first catch of bluefin tuna-a whopping 90 tons, worth about $20,000. Grizzled fishermen, speeding their net mending, talked about the biggest tuna run ever, wondered if prices would go above the present...
...venerable, profitable New York Trust Co. announced last week that it will ask stockholders' permission to sell 100,000 shares of $25-par stock. The sale price was not announced, but it will be around the current market price of $85 a share, should net the bank some...