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Word: nettings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...danger of this at present-the danger lies at the opposite extreme. It should be retained, concentrated and improved. It should be retained because there is danger of espionage which is active and persistent. It should be concentrated and improved because, at present, the American security system flings its net too widely and indiscriminately, because it confuses the need for security, which is real, with the need for protection from subversion, which is negligible, and because it makes demands for maximal loyalty which are neither necessary for security nor admissible to the idea of freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judgments & Prophecies, may 2, 1955 | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

...Gravem played an attacking game, frequently coming to the net behind his powerful serve and forehand to beat Columbia's captain, Pete Chase...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Defeats Lions in Tennis, To Meet Quakers | 4/30/1955 | See Source »

...Mayers, at five, is expected to have little difficulty with the Lions' Dick Biandel, who game has been erratic. Mayers, on the other hand, has fairly steady ground strokes, and a good net game. Playing six, the varsity's Maynard Canfield oppose John Suarez...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Tennis Team Plays Lions, Mediocre Penn in Away Matches | 4/29/1955 | See Source »

...three scenes, nevertheless, the film abandons plot and sophistication, descends to low comedy, and becomes hilarious. Alec Guinness shines at these times, particularly where he tries youthfully to retrieve a lost badminton bird and ends up with the net tangled about his legs and feathers in his teeth. Though not exceptional for a Guinness picture, in such spots To Paris, With Love, rises above routine comedy...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: To Paris, With Love | 4/27/1955 | See Source »

...first doubles, Mayers, replacing Harris, and Haegler were very powerful at net in overwhelming Ellison and Nordlie, 6-3, 6-1. Gravem and Ben Heckscher, however, played very erratically in dropping a three set match to Bob Roades and Grubbs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Defeats West Pint, 11-2, In Tennis Match | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

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