Word: netting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University could exercise. It was not those who went out for college teams who needed exercise, he thought; it was those of mediocre athletic prowess. There should be more games for more players, he said. Last year, the football team made a gross income of $773, 698.93, a net profit of $476,88.12. greatest in the University's history. All other sports showed losses. Track cost more than $20,000, basketball $12,000, baseball $10,000. As President Little desired, the football money is being spent to pay for the new football stadium, for a women's athletic building...
Play grew faster in the third period when Wood scored for Harvard. C. C. Cunningham '32 carried the puck from behind his own net to within a few feet of the opposing team's, but a fast play by Manning caused Cunningham to go in the net instead of the puck. Gilmor, Frothingham Score for Seconds...
...second period, Marshall cleverly stick-handled his way to the mouth of the net, slipping the puck past the Crimson goalie a fraction of a second after Referee Stewart's whistle had blown for a penalty. With two Harvard players in the penalty box, the Toronto skaters launched a fierce but fruitless attack on the University fort, narrowly missing several potential tallies. In the closing minute of the period, S. L. Batchelder '31 twice weaved his way the length of the arena for shots at the Canadian cage...
...crackers and biscuits in packages instead of in bulk. The name originally proposed for Uneeda Biscuit was Uneeda Cracker; the change being made because "biscuits" seemed to rank "crackers" in popular estimation. National Biscuit is the largest biscuit manufacturer in the world, has never reported a deficit, had a net income of $13,038,000, first nine months of 1928. Its president, Roy Everett Tomlinson, has been with the company since 1903. He succeeded Founder Adolphus Williamson Green to the presidency in 1917. He is 51, looks younger, and is so sincerely publicity-shy that even his friend Bruce Barton...
...will Pulitzer left extraordinary benefactions, most of them secret. Among them was a provision setting aside a percentage of the total net revenue of both the World and the Post-Dispatch, to be divided annually between a certain few executives, in addition to their salaries...