Word: nets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvardmen, James Dwight and Fred Sears (Dick's brother),* slung a net across a lawn in Nahant, Mass, and batted a rubber ball at each other. They had each won a game when it began to rain. The absorbed young players thereupon donned rubber boots and raincoats, played out the rubber game. It was not the first lawn tennis match played in the U.S. (a Staten Islander named Mary Outerbridge had beaten the boys to it) but it was historic. Enthusiasts Dwight and Sears soon got their friends to lay out courts on the fashionable lawns of Nahant...
Back cracked Senator Tom Stewart, Democrat of Tennessee: "I predict that the words uttered by the little Governor, self-admitted Presidential timber, will live to haunt him. ... It is indeed unfortunate the young man should net have a national viewpoint instead of the narrow and provincial...
Chief reasons for the good showing were a 91% jump in railroad net, sharply higher profits for airlines, amusement companies, hotels. Even manufacturing profits held up well. Thanks to a good final six months, total earnings eased only 13.8% for the year as compared to a 36.7% nose dive at midyear...
...Winter's Net. For the first time, Moscow newspapers last week printed maps showing the "official" battle line in Russia. The net geographic results of Russia's winter campaign, if that line is correct, are shown above. The net strategic effect has been to leave the Germans on something very like the line from which they started a year ago, except that they now hold all Crimea and the Novorossiisk bridgehead. The map also pointed up the smallness of Russian gains in the north. The Rzhev salient was reduced and the Leningrad siege lifted, but nothing like...
...broad reaches of the Mississippi Delta in Sunflower County is a remarkable state penitentiary. Its name: Parchman Penal Farms. Its record: a net profit...