Word: nets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After the Decision . . . General Fuller's comments on U.S. battles, on their causes, and on the peaces which have intervened, provoke constant comparisons with the U.S. part in World War II. The net effect is fairly encouraging: the book leaves the impression that Americans fight hard, if not always with utmost efficiency. But after the discussion of the Meuse-Argonne, there is a pithy little passage which ought to make readers want to see a certain difference in the finally decisive battles of 1942-43: "I do not intend here," Fuller writes, "as I have done in former chapters...
...make collection harder the new rates are really punishing. Including the Victory Tax, a single person must dig up $17 for enjoying a net income (before personal exemption) of $600 a year, $107 for $1,000, $220 for $1,500, $446 for $2,500; a married man with two dependents will owe $20 if he netted. $1,200, $159 for $2,500, $485 for $4,000. $730 for $5,000. These lower-bracket liabilities represent lump sums of the sort that few lower-bracket people have ever before had to raise...
...result of Keene's injury, Howie Hodgson sparked the Varsity defense by his outstanding kicks from the net. This was the first game in which Hodgson had played. Also making their debut in Varsity soccer were Dave Ogden and Ed Close, both Freshmen. Twenty-four men received their numerals...
...first score was made in the second period when Lilley, Yale halfback, tallied on a free kick. The Elis came through again in the third quarter to make their second goal on a clean shot into the high left-hand corner of the Crimson net when George Caulkins booted the ball from his wing position...
Sample Games. When it is all over, dollars-&-cents results are as jealously guarded as prize patents. But six medium-sized companies wound up with an average net of 12% on sales before taxes. After 40 to 80% income taxes their profits run from...