Word: nets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Livingston refused to come to the net and played a defensive, "pat-ball" game for the most part. Sears was brought to playing in the North Carolina player's style, and this ultimately led to his defeat. Sears led 5 to 2 in the final set only to drop the next five straight games, and the match...
Literary Chloroform. But the stags lave yet to be brought to bay. The trouble with attempts to ban them is that most legal definitions of obscenity ineviably trap serious-intentioned publishers and writers in the censor's net. Last month district attorneys from 38 Pennsylvania counties met to "discuss new methods of combatting the obscene literature pouring into the state." but were anable to agree on any fair or workable censorship formula. Even churchmen do not agree that the stag magazines drive children to delinquency. The Rev. Owen McKinley Walton, executive director of Pittsburgh's Council of Churches...
...varsity lacrosse team, fresh from its first victory of the year on Wednesday, will atempt to net its first Ivy win when it meets Penn on the Business School field this afternoon...
...varsity can overcome its weakness in reverses, which was the major factor in its 10 to 5 loss to Cornell Saturday, Coach Bruce Munro's squad has a good chance to net its first win of the season...
Checking the state income taxes paid by Kohler in recent years, Pomfret found that "the firm has continued to report a substantial net taxable income in Wisconsin, and certainly has been making money." In the last pre-strike year, 1953, Kohler paid $390,509 to Wisconsin, Pomfret reported. This dropped drastically to $124,144 in 1954, when the strike closed the Kohler plant for two months, but bounded back in 1955 to $455,261. Last year, paralleling the start of the boycott and the slump in housing starts, the figure settled to $336,856. Kohler's competitors said last...