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Word: nets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Strojny, John Fentana, and Gene Spinelli. Coaches Chief Boston and Harold Kopp, who scouted the Holy Cross eleven last Saturday, rate Roberts and Jim Dickleman as two of the finest ends they have seen. The rest of the line is rugged enough, as evidenced by the 35 yards net Syracuse gained against them last week...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/24/1946 | See Source »

Reacting to what he called "persistent complaints," Stud net Council President Levin H. Campbell '48 in a statement issued last night, announced that the Council is now conducting an investigation of the H.A.A.'s method of allotting seats to football games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Council Probes Football Seat Allotments | 10/24/1946 | See Source »

...voyage to Venus, for example, the space ship would start at 8 miles per second in the direction opposite to the motion of the earth (see diagram) * Since the earth moves at 18½ miles per second, the space ship's net forward motion would be 10½ miles per second (18½; minus 8 miles per sec.). This speed is too slow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Gliding, Gliding | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

...delighted to find that the market was still going strong. Now it is turning out 30,000 pens a day, is sold out for months. This year, Eversharp expects to gross $50,000,000 on pens & pencils (2½ times as much as all pen & pencilmakers sold in 1939), net about $5,000,000. It also expects to run into much tougher competition shortly. New ball-point pens are being born weekly, and some of the new companies, notably the Hamilton Ross Jetflow Corp., may give Eversharp a run for its money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MERCHANDISING: The $64 Answer | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

...they lunched together in the Oak Room. But when they died or drifted away, there were always younger wits to dine in the Oak Room and younger actors to sleep where John Barrymore had slept. Despite occasional rough going, the Algonquin usually earned a profit (last year's net...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: Sale of a Wayward Inn | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

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