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Word: nets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Munro plans to stick with his winning combination today. But Charlie MacVeagh will be ready for limited reserve action in the line, after being out with assorted ailments most of the year. Elliot Finkelstein will be unable to back up Jim Perkins in the goal, since the senior net-tender sprained a thumb in scrimmage against the freshmen this week. Otherwise, the Crimson is in good shape physically...

Author: By Jerome A. Chadwick, | Title: Sharper Soccer Team May Upset Fourth Place Brown Squad Today | 11/17/1956 | See Source »

...program, which allegedly keeps down the price of room and board. Instead of the Harvard situation, where scholarship boys work to pay their own way through school, all the Radcliffe girls work to lower their common rates. Besides bell duty, the Cliffite can also don white apron and hair net two or three times a week to "wait on" in the dining hall...

Author: By Martha E. Miller and Christiana Morison, S | Title: The Radcliffe Dormitory: | 11/13/1956 | See Source »

...during the week and you leave your best on the practice field," says Dodd. While backs brush up on their assignments, linemen horn in and take a crack at carrying the ball "to give them some variety." Groups wander off to play volleyball, using a goalpost crossbar as the net. Touch football is a favorite time-killer. Every few minutes the routine is changed so the boys will not get bored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Happy Coach | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

...utilities reporting net earnings for the full year ending Sept. 30: the Southern Co.'s net income was up 17% to $29,502,657; Pacific Lighting Corp. up 20% to $21,086,497; Consolidated Edison of New York year's profits of $52,605,480, up 2% over the previous year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Another Round? | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

...tallest man-made structure, a 1,572-ft. TV tower in Oklahoma City. In quick succession, Dresser took on Roots-Connersville's rotary positive blowers, and Security Engineering's rock bits and reamers. By 1948 Dresser had taken seven separate companies under its wing, increased its net sales to $108,600,000. Said Mallon: "When we buy a company, we have to consider if the company would be better off in the Dresser family. Would Dresser itself be better, not just bigger, for having added it? Unless two and two make five, nobody gains by the merger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Drilling for Size | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

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