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Word: nets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Andover's tennis team rode roughshed yesterday over the Yardling net-men with a final score of 7-1, and one game called because of darkness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '45 Racquetmen Lose | 4/23/1942 | See Source »

...Net, net," he replied, "lyod tronulsya -the ice is on the move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Winter Is Over | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

...famed profit-sharing bonus plan. Back in 1931, some of them had participated or acquiesced in an unauthorized distribution of stock. Another 1931 slip-up was the inclusion in the bonus rate of $10,057,559 profit on the sale of G.M. treasury stock to the Management Corp. Net earnings were improperly boosted from treasury stock transactions in other years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SALARIES: Bonus Bounces | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

...another day Mrs. Mohorovicic kept her newborn baby warm by snuggling him inside her lifebelt. Then a rescue ship drew alongside. The newborn child was handed up to a startled seaman. No assistance was needed for sturdy, 28-year-old Desanka Mohorovicic. She clambered up the cargo net, took a shower before she turned in. Last week, in a Norfolk, Va. hospital, she was feeling fine, getting ready to join her husband, an attache of the Yugoslav Consulate in Manhattan. Said she in her uneasy English: "Everyone was good to me." Said gallant Dr. Conly: "A brave, lovely woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC: Birth in a Boat | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

...damage insurance, provided for when Congress created a $1,000,000,000 War Damage Corporation within RFC, is being held up until Jesse Jones has come to an agreement with the insurance industry. Present plan is that the Government corporation will be the sole underwriter and take all the net losses, if any, but that private industry will operate the scheme. Latest quarrel holding up action: whether the insurance companies or their agents (each of which would like to cut out the other) will have the pleasure and profit of doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facts, Figures, Apr. 13, 1942 | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

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