Word: nets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jean Borotra, famed "bounding Basque" of French tennis in its salad days (circa 1929), bounded back to glory at 48, in London sparked the French team to victory over Britain, eight matches to four. But he no longer bounded gaily over the net with outstretched hand at matches' end-now he just pushed the net down and soberly stepped across...
Cause for Joy. The steel industry, thanks to its 90% of capacity operation, got an E. Republic turned in a net for the first nine months of $9,494,414 (v. $7,973,927 for the same period last year). U.S. Steel's net was estimated at $24,138,541 for the third quarter, 73% better than the quarter before, and twice as much as last year. (For many big companies, this year's and last year's quarters were not comparable, since in 1945's third quarter many companies were reconverting.) In general, most other...
...prediction that Republicans will take over the House? Last week TIME correspondents reported from crucial districts in crucial states. A compilation of their reports, based on local polls and the best guesses of local experts, disclosed that Republicans, who now hold 192 seats in Congress, would make the following net gains: California (2), Illinois (3), Indiana (1), Michigan (4), Missouri (2), New York (6), Ohio (2), Pennsylvania (6), Washington (1), West Virginia...
...First Downs 8 8 Net gain, rushing 107 92 Passes attempted 6 17 Passes completed 3 4 Gain by passes 34 48 Interceptions 4 0 Gain by interceptions 52 0 Number of punts 9 8 Distance punts 291 307 Average punts 32 38 Punt runbacks 46 43 Own punts blocked 1 0 Number penalties 6 6 Yards penalized...
...eleven leada in combined defense as well as ground with a net gain against it of 431 yards by rushing and passing so far, or an average of 107.8 yards per game. Of those 431 yards, 396 are from passes...